• @el_abuelo
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    -16 months ago

    I’m not going to engage with someone who resorts to ad hominem attacks.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      There is literally no “ad hominem” in that entire fucking comment, telling you that you don’t know about something (ignorance) is not ad hominem, dickhead. If you’re going to do reddit-tier debate-pervert shit to deliberately keep yourself in ignorance of factual information and stop yourself from ever learning anything then at least get your fucking debate-pervert shit correct.

      This comment is ad hominem. Loser.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      16 months ago

      Ad hominem arguments are ones that dismiss your arguments based on insults or attacks on you personally, not just being insulting while making an argument against you.

      The fact that you don’t know that (or can’t tell the difference between them) just demonstrates your ignorance, so in this particular instance they weren’t even being insulting, they were simply stating a fact.

      • @el_abuelo
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        16 months ago

        You live in ignorance and seek to maintain that ignorance in other people

        Quite literally the definition of argumentum ad hominem. Attacking my character as well as my motivations, neither of which are the subject of the discussion and are only being used in a fallacious way in an attempt to cement their argument. Their follow-up just demonstrates why it’s not worth the time to engage with someone who makes such fallacious bad faith arguments.

        The preceding paragraphs were attacking my argument and would have made an interesting argument otherwise.

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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          06 months ago

          No, you dumbfuck, there is no argument attached to those insults. There is nothing in their comment saying that you are wrong because of your ignorance, which is what an ad hominem argument is - we are pointing out why you are wrong, and then calling you a lentil brained moron.
          This is stuff they made me learn at school over 20 years ago as a 13 year old. You should be embarrased that you can’t even get the most basic fallacy right.

            • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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              16 months ago

              I know you feel smart for taking a holier than thou attitude, but you’re just revealing you’re too dumb to come up with an actual response.