The regressive left likes to throw out labels like candy and then ad hominem attacks people who…
Ian Frantz
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- “Regressive left” sure is some kind of label, now, isn’t it?
- An argumentum ad hominem is an attack on an argument which takes the form, “My opponent is stupid, and therefore wrong.” Neither of the following are argumenta ad hominem:
“My opponent is stupid, and also wrong,”
“My opponent is wrong, and therefore stupid.”
Both of those are simply rhetoric; they are off-limits in a formal debate, but: - The internet is not your fucking highschool debate club. Get over the idea that Ms. Wood is required to engage with you, or your arguments, in some idealized manner — especially when you’re chastising her like you think you’re in some kind of authority over her.
Oh, and on a related note: - The principles of charity apply to your arguments, if she chooses to engage them; they do not apply to you. She doesn’t “owe it to you” to engage with the theoretical best versions of your arguments, because she doesn’t owe you anything.
- Lastly, when you say you are “open to changing your mind based on evidence”: you have ample evidence that Ms. Wood does not want to talk to you, so why are you still here in her responses, shouting at her?