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cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

A rhetorical question avoids getting to the point because getting to the point is not the point of rhetoric. The point of rhetoric is emotional effect. Therefore when swift and easy arrival at the point is eschewed (a moment’s google), and an emotional effect is clearly evident, then rhetoric is clearly the point.

Tangentially, consider the phenomenon of “smugnorance”.

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