Ooops. Gets it wrong in the first sentence. For example, deception.
While I agree that the argument is somewhat oversimplified, in fairness to the writer, when you deceive somebody, you typically do so by creating the illusion of either reason or force. i.e. If you point a realistic airsoft gun at somebody and tell them to "get on the floor", they do so because of the perception of force that isn't there. When somebody is swindled by a Madoff, they were deceived into a reasonable belief that they were making a sound investment.
In either case, force or reason figure into the equation, even if it is merely a false perception of one or the other. It could also be argued that deception is, in and of itself, a type of force, albeit not a physical one.
>>Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force.
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>Ooops. Gets it wrong in the first sentence. For example, deception.
And isn’t most deception inflicted on reason? {i.e. deception cannot work on the unreasoning, therefore it must be applied to the reasoning. Because it is applied to the reasoning then it is reason that accepts or rejects the deception and may act upon that acceptance or rejection.}