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To: LS

I’m not a professional debater(a “master” debater, if you will) or anything, but techinically, I think that might be what is called an ad hominem attack. You are attacking the manner of the arguer, not the argument itself.


57 posted on 04/17/2008 11:40:42 AM PDT by Boxen (If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate!)
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To: Boxen
Not really. I'm attacking the fact that the supposedly most big-name "scientific" journal in the country is threatened by this film. Therefore, for it to provoke such rage, it must really be on target. If it was just silly, no one would pay any attention to its arguments.

And I'm not a professional debater either, but I think that's called "logic."

75 posted on 04/17/2008 11:57:11 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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