DIALOGUE TO A PROVOCATION

[Provocation]

“It would be cowardly on my part to argue with you, since I know all your complexes.”

“Well, I know yours too, and I’m ready to argue.”

“Now, if you consider mine superiority, then know that I don’t argue with inferiors; but, if you consider mine inferiority, there your cowardice is manifested.”

“So, you consider yourself beaten and refuse to argue with me.”

“Winner or beaten, it doesn’t matter to me, since this is what wisdom teaches me: let the will of the smaller be done.”

“I think that running away is what is the manifestation of cowardice.”

“What you think should be kept and used, for it may be a wise treasure.”

“Words and more words say nothing. However, I still believe that…”

[goes back to the original provocation]

“If you pay no attention to words, how dare you want me to pay attention to yours, of provocation?”

“Because mine are an attack on your integrity of thought, therefore, a question of honor, and yours are an escape due to cowardice, due to the alleged honor that exists in you.”

“This that you have just said can only strengthen my desire to not argue with you, since what you believe to be attacking, does not receive from me the name of honor and therefore must be a reflection of another of your complexes. And if I don’t deign to consider your words, it’s because the subject that they express is for me a point long overcome.”

“Well, I insist that, when seeing your way of thinking being attacked, you don’t react. This should be considered a cowardly act, and therefore, all your words and ideas, without effect.”

“Well, I say that if the way of thinking, words and ideas could be understood by all men in the same way, there wouldn’t be people with complexes, or arguments. It’s a question of intelligence limit, and refusing to argue is a question of comprehension.”

“So, how can someone be elucidated without arguing?”

“Doing what you are doing now, that is, asking questions: a sign of recognition of inferiority. Goodbye.”