[OT rude or not, a different opinion] -Re: Beta 8.10 released
tom bell
cbell44 at cfl.rr.com
Tue Oct 14 19:45:27 UTC 2008
> Fake politeness is useless, in this we agree. But if you disagree with
> someone else's ideas, you attack the ideas, not the person. That's not
> fake politeness, that's respect. (it's not meant to be a scolding, I'm
> not referring to what has been said; the technique of attacking a person
> whose ideas we don't share is old and well known, the exact term escapes
> me - is it "ad personam"?)
ad hominem
Tom Bell
--
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them.”
-- Albert Einstein, Physicist (1879-1955)
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