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Originally Posted by Daywolf
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Exactly! You didn't comment on the video but just went directly after me with attacks. ad hominem, duh??
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That's not what an ad hominem is though, friend. It's not synanomous with attacking someone. The fact that I didn't comment on the video actually excludes it from being an ad hominem.
"ad hominem"
1.
(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.
"vicious ad hominem attacks"
2.
relating to or associated with a particular person.
"the office was created ad hominem for Fenton"
Clearly we're talking about the first and not the second usage.
Now you can play a game of semantics and say that by the first definition I was using an ad hominem attack because I was attacking you (a person) and not the video (a position) but you'd be wrong. Otherwise the definition would simply be 'directed against a person'. The inclusion of 'rather than the position' can't be ignored.
The ad hominem fallacy is very simple. In this case it would be: "your Hillary video is wrong because [insert my post]". It's a logical fallacy because the messenger has no effect on whether or not the message is true or false.
"Who are you going to trust on this issue? Some dirty Mexican or a red-blooded American?" is a logical fallacy. Being Mexican or dirty doesn't affect how true the issue is.
Your personal shortcomings don't reflect on that video. The person who posted that video doesn't even reflect on it.
But... I wasn't commented at all on the video. I just posted an off-topic remark about you and people like you. Therefore it can't be an ad hominem attack, just an attack.
Get it?
Probably not because logical fallacies is something that falls under philosophy and logic and isn't just a fancy term people have started using more and more in arguments as a tool to one-up the other person rather than understanding it as part of having a valid argument.
But even if you do you'll dance around it with more bs. With a lot of question marks and smilies probably. And a couple of 'LOL!'s. Too long didn't read, LOL! Boy, you sure did spend a lot of time on writing this, LOL! Not really though because I have an IQ of 3 digits and not 2.