By a Dark Arts practitioner, I just mean someone who uses rhetorical techniques to win debate points, without particular regard for the truth.
So whether a rhetorical technique should be classified as Dark Arts is determined by the intent of the speaker?
I disagree. Treating the degree of darkness as a function of intent leads to bad places.
Dark Arts = deliberate manipulation
To me, that looks like you’re starting out saying that whether or not they intend to manipulate people is irrelevant, but then ending with saying that if it’s not deliberate manipulation it doesn’t count as dark arts. Not sure what you’re getting at, I guess.
Huh
To me, that looks like you’re starting out saying that whether or not they intend to manipulate people is irrelevant, but then ending with saying that if it’s not deliberate manipulation it doesn’t count as dark arts. Not sure what you’re getting at, I guess.
I should have been clearer: in the quotes above replace “intent” with “intent with respect to the mentioned ‘particular regard for the truth’”.