Re: Ad Hominem fallacy again

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 23:00:18 MST

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    "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com> Wrote:

    > I'm not even sure that it's possible to prove that some
    > position is "idiotic". Perhaps you have an example?

    I do indeed have a very good example but I'm not allowed to say what it is,
    if I did there are members of this list who would start to hyperventilate
    like a preacher who heard somebody say fuck at a church picnic.

    > I don't think that we can come to agree on what the term
    > "idiotic" means

    Don't be silly, of course you know what the word means.

    > This is very weird. How is it that how one "should feel"
    > is part of an argument?

    Yes weird. I don't have a answer to your question and I don't know who are
    you quoting.

    >this understates the harm done by statements such as "a member of the KKK
    >is scum".

    I could not have found a better way to illustrate the ridiculous conclusions
    your line of argument leads to; calling a member of the KKK scum causes
    harm! Do I really need to say more?

                John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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