• el_abuelo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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]@hexbear.net
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      1 year 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.