You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, and I woke more people up with emotional arguments than I did with logical ones. This saddens me but I did what I had to do to get the job done, and always tried to turn people back onto the path of logic at the end. In martial arts there is the concept of blending. It is so very hard to counter somebody's force directly - but if you blend with their force (go the same direction as they are) it immediately unbalances them, and their power becomes your power. Sometimes you have to (unfortunately) argue this way, as well. People want to be scared, they are conditioned to be scared. They don't believe there is a problem if they are not scared. So you scare them a little bit, followed by logical, rational solutions. Usually I make an emphasis on personal responsibility and taking personal power back for onesself. I mean, it isn't out and out dishonest to use emotional arguments, but it isn't exactly honest either. What we are facing IS scary, but what we are facing has no emotional solutions. Only logical ones. Gut reactions, revenge, blanket accusations, etc, are going to go nowhere. The only solutions to TPTB-problem are exposure and logic.