Re: Ad Hominem fallacy again

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 11:29:54 MST

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    John K Clark wrote:

    > "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
    >
    >> Ad hominem never addresses the topic and never is valid or
    >> useful or laudable.
    >
    > Never? Nazis were scum. KKK members were scum. Stalin was
    > scum. Are you saying they were not scum?

    No, Harvey is saying correctly that Nazism, White Supremicism and Stalinism
    are in no way discredited by labeling their sponsors as scum. The KKK calls
    blacks and Jews scum, and they are no more correct than you are in calling
    the KKK scum.

    With respect to getting to the truth, ad hominem is just waste of ink, or a
    waste of the vocal chords, or in our case a waste of pixels and bandwidth.
    Personally I'd like to see this debate about ad hominem come to an end,
    because it too is a waste of bandwidth.

    -gts



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