[Vision2020] A Kind and Just Parent

[No Weatherman]

Chas:

I was making a joke. I was being facetious. I tried to make a point
I've been trying to make since I entered this discussion.

That point is that logic requires us to separate the merits of an
argument from the person making the argument, contra four very LOUD
and dishonest persons in this forum.

Thankfully, however, people such as you and many others have risen
above the ad hominem fallacy to engage me and my points head on.


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 15:22, No Weatherman <no.weatherman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you mean that we should separate the merits of an argument from the
>> person making the argument, then I'm afraid I have to disagree with
>> you.
>
> So, if s book exists called "Gardening Tips by Mussolini," the advice
> offered therein is certifiably bad, without examination?  That gives
> you an incredible amount of veto power in an argument -- too much.  "I
> won't accept any of your sources," you are saying, "because -- without
> any examination -- I know that your sources are inherently
> untrustworthy or unreliable."
>
> That level of illogicality boggles me.
>
> Chas
>