Quote (Santara @ Dec 14 2021 08:33am)
Look, I'll try to translate this into simpleton so that you can understand it: because I didn't address whatever it was you linked in the OP, that means I'm not engaged in an ad hominem fallacy. I'm not trying to refute whatever it says. I'm quite simply insulting you, and that isn't what ad hom is.
sadly for you, this thread only purpose is to post an argument for consideration. your one and only involvement was "at the man"
Ad Hominem
(Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution.
https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Ad-Hominem.htmlyour line of "reasoning" is perhaps one of the greatest fails I have ever witnessed. Its almost as if you took the explanation/definition of ad hominem verbatim and at the end added "and that isn't what ad hom is"
"I'm quite simply insulting you"
(thanks for the admission. make it easy on the mods when they have to decide what your about. ya know flaming and trolling and such.)
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as for this
"people should not be afraid of their governments"
"governments should be afraid of their people"
and
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. ~Walter Lippmann, 1889 - 1974"
(you should remove that stuff. you dont represent it"