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To: Henrietta
(your post is a perfect example of the ad hominem attack, by the way)

No, Henny, it isn't. In addition to being nasty and snarky, you must have failed Logic 101 - hey, that is kind of fun.

An "ad hominem" attack is when I attack you personally as a means of refuting your argument, suggesting that your argument is flawed because of some personal circumstance of yours. I have made no intimations about the quality of your argument, merely your quality as a poster and as a person. Pointing out that you're a nasty, horrible person is not an ad hominem attack - it is a statement of fact. If my argument was essentially that your posts were flawed because you're a nasty, horrible person, that would be an ad hominem argument.

I'm available to continue educating you in basic logic and rhetoric, by the way, but I do charge by the hour.

I'm sure that you and others who resort to such tactics wish I wouldn't point them out, but alas, I feel I must.

Silly person. If you held yourself to that same high standard, I never would have said a word. But you want to be free to insult and belittle others, while at the same time whining about how you're being personally attacked. Sorry, peddle that line of junk elsewhere.

160 posted on 03/25/2003 6:49:21 PM PST by general_re (Think green...burn only 100% recycled dinosaurs in your car.)
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To: general_re
"I have made no intimations about the quality of your argument, merely your quality as a poster and as a person."

And I suppose that this namecalling qualifies as reasoned debate?
163 posted on 03/25/2003 6:52:10 PM PST by Henrietta
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To: general_re
"But you want to be free to insult and belittle others, while at the same time whining about how you're being personally attacked. Sorry, peddle that line of junk elsewhere."

Pointing out namecalling and ad hominem attacks is not insulting others, nor is it whining about personal attacks. It's simply stating a fact. I'm not sure why my posts have aroused such animus in you, and I'm not sure why you don't just stop posting to me if you don't like what I have to say.
167 posted on 03/25/2003 6:56:26 PM PST by Henrietta
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