This is part six of a 12 week series where, on Mondays, I plan to explore the tactics of verbal cheap shot artists – people who can’t, or won’t use valid arguments to present their case, but instead resort to verbal cheap shots. To make sure you don’t miss a single article, be sure and sign up for my RSS ^[2] feed or subscribe by email ^[3] (both are free!) so you can get a new article each day! Check out my other articles in the Verbal Cheap Shots ^[4] category.

Don’t know what Jedi Mind Tricks are?

Elan: “You wanna buy some death sticks?”
Obi-Wan: “You don’t want to sell me death sticks.”
Elan: “Uh, I don’t wanna sell you death sticks.”
Obi-Wan: “You want to go home and rethink your life.”
Elan: “I wanna go home and rethink my life”
— Elan Sel’Sabagno and Obi-Wan Kenobi