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2/13/2021

Laughter allows an argument to circumvent criticism.

Once I worried about the role of humor in reasoning. A student would ask the professor a question and he would crack a joke. The class laughs, and the point is never addressed. Didn't Nietzsche have something to say about this? In a world where laughter has been supplanted by clapter, one wonders whether the point has become moot, or whether we might not be in even greater danger.

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