If the people on the other side of the argument ended up behaving coherently, rather than twisting themselves into knots and burning themselves out as their inner gears ground against themselves in unresolvable circles, it wouldn’t be much of an adversarial lecture, would it?
If the people on the other side of the argument ended up behaving coherently, rather than twisting themselves into knots and burning themselves out as their inner gears ground against themselves in unresolvable circles, it wouldn’t be much of an adversarial lecture, would it?
Knot-twisting is indeed the outcome I was imagining.
(Your translation spell might be handling the words “convince” and “should” optimistically… maybe try them with the scare quotes?)