Tip: Quote Hitler at People

I have a new favorite technique for arguing, dear readers. It goes like this: An obnoxious person offers an opinion, and you quote Hitler agreeing with them.

For example...

Guy "When the government uses our tax dollars to pay for welfare, poor people have no incentive to find jobs instead of mooching off the system forever."

Me "As a Christian, I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice."

Guy "Who said that?"

Me "Hitler."

I am looking forward to using this technique on my anarchist friend, who likes to criticize the democratic process by saying that if people are not fit to rule themselves, we have no reason to believe they are fit to choose rulers. My response to this is "Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be discovered by an election."

I do not suggest doing this to people whose company you enjoy. I am fully willing to admit that the technique is fallacious and irritating, but as Hitler would say, "I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few."