"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."

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There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

— Karl Popper