Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Any argument that is built wholly upon the denigration of another, without any reference to evidence or support from logic, must be very fragile indeed

And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.