Nancy Pelosi Reveals Top Dem She Thinks Will Run in 2028

[gulliver]

138. It's kind of the opposite of common sense, grounded, fair-minded, courteous intellectual

It's just an ad hoc contrived coinage by me as far as I know. I intend "emoto-sophist" to be a slam against people who use emotional cleverness and blackmail to advance arguments. You can't argue with them, because to do so is to spring a trap. They back their premises with emotion, not logic, so their premises are (to their pseudo-religion) sacrosanct. They're basically fools and scolds and grifters who are the bad kind of sophist intellectually and who are emotionally manipulative, threatening, aggressive, and even tyrannical.

It's easy to drift into this kind of behavior if you let your emotions run amok, by the way. We all do it sometimes. Children do it. The immature do it. People who are lazy and superficial do it. People who are lost do it. It's just a terrible, far from uncommon screw-up if you're trying to be a good person and a terrible offense against society if you're deliberately trying to be a bad person.