[DiogenesLamp]

I would think all of us were pretty much immuned to ad hominum arguments. I know I am. So what are you expecting to get out of launching an ad hominum argument at me?

Are you just venting or something?

Federalism is the consented to separation of powers between the state and the Federal government. The Federal government is supposed to defend the nation from foreign enemies, (among a very few other things) not hire dog catchers or clear your sewers.

The Federal government should be constrained to it's designed purpose, and kept completely out of state or municipal functions for which it wasn't designed.

[Bull Snipe]

So you would have no problem with a 12 year old mining coal or picking cotton 16 hours a day if the state law said it was ok.

[OIFVeteran]

So what do you think the republicans and Lincoln’s response should have done once the south had seceded?

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp to Bull Snipe: "I would think all of us were pretty much immuned to ad hominum arguments.
I know I am.
So what are you expecting to get out of launching an ad hominum argument at me?"

But Bull Snipe's post was far from ad hominum.
If anything it was simple reductio ad absurdum.