[OneWingedShark]

>>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.}

[Gondring]

{i.e. deception cannot work on the unreasoning [...]

I would differ with that premise.