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To: Mad Mammoth

BigB said to JennyHatch:

[because]"You are very stupid?"

DING DING DING!!!

We have a WINNER!!!!


Personal attack

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Generally, a personal attack is committed when a person substitutes abusive remarks for evidence when examining another person's claims or comments.

It is considered a personal attack when a person starts referencing a supposed flaw or weakness in an individual's personality, beliefs, lifestyle, convictions or principles, and use it as a debate tactic or as a means of AVOIDING DISCUSSION of the relevance or truthfulness of what the person said.

It works on the reasoning that, by discrediting the source of an argument, e.g. the person making it, the argument itself can be weakened.

Jenny


85 posted on 07/06/2005 2:51:57 PM PDT by Jenny Hatch (Jenny Hatch)
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To: Jenny Hatch

Grow some thicker skin before you play with the grown-ups.


86 posted on 07/06/2005 2:54:06 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Go Team Venture!)
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