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After reading Chapters 6 and 7 of Epstein’s text, I subconsciously began to implement some of the ways to refute and rebut arguments. The one I surprising used to today was ridicule. I know it’s wrong, I was wrong for saying it and the book definitely agrees. My friends and I were in the airport waiting for an arriving family when we saw a rather large man wearing a Hawaiian shirt, off board a flight. My friend leaned over and said to me, “His trip must have been expensive. Look at all that luggage he has.” Out of word-vomit I say, “And I’m sure he paid extra for that seat, too!” The minute I said it, I should my head and thought to myself, “ridicule”. It’s amazing how often we ridicule others and how seldom we ever catch ourselves doing it. It’s just one of those things that get swept under the rug.