Attacking the person rather than the person’s faulty idea doesn’t put the idea six feet under, but indicates that the idea is sound and the critic is both wrong and nasty.
“Attacking the person rather than the person’s faulty idea... is both wrong and nasty.”
Where do you people come from. I suppose you think that sounds highly intellectual.
Most of us don’t know, according to your lights, that slamming the endless numbers of psychopathic leaders throughout history is so, so wrong and nasty.