Rationality, by this yardstick (and irrationality too, but we’ll get to that) is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena.

这样说来，理性（也包括非理性，我们后面将要谈到）不过是辩论赛场上强行组配起来去战胜对手的奴仆。