The "time principle" isn't just used in scams designed to separate you from your money. It's also used in religious and political propaganda -- after presentin

The "time principle" isn't just used in scams designed to separate you from your money. It's also used in religious and political propaganda -- after presenting a dubious chain of evidence or argumentation, quickly jumping to a call to action and hyping up the need to decide now. Sometimes it's not even a call to action that creates time pressure; it's simply a second argument that tangentially relates to the first. If you're trying to listen to the new argument you're no longer thinking critically about the prior one.