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To: bdeaner

Look at 2678 and 2679 together. They are moving the conversation away from the issues and towards a criticism of the Freeper himself. That is “making it personal.”


2,682 posted on 07/17/2009 10:01:04 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: Religion Moderator

With regard to 2678, I’m not sure how to respond to a style of argument that says, “You should listen to what we say because we are the Tiger Woods of X,” when X is the subject under discussion, without addressing whether the messenger has any valid personal claim to the said Tiger Woods-like qualities. The fallacious reasoning seems to beg a personal response. I will try in the future to simply point out the fallacious reasoning without resorting to sarcasm or discussion of personal qualities, even if the poster seems to be inviting them.


2,683 posted on 07/17/2009 10:24:23 PM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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