Can we refocus on the issues at hand?

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 16 17:14:03 UTC 2015


On Sep 16, 2015 10:06 AM, "Simos Xenitellis" <simos.lists at googlemail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com>
wrote:
>>
>> The ad hominem attack is strong in you today.
>
> An "ad hominem" attack is when you debate someone and call them "fat",
"bald" or anything disparaging but irrelevant to the discussion.
> If you call "ad hominem", then in your reply you need to highlight the
exact issue.
>

>From Wikipedia:
An *ad hominem* (Latin <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin> for "to the
man" or "to the person"[1]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#cite_note-1>), short for
*argumentum
ad hominem*, means responding to arguments by attacking a person's
character, rather than addressing the content of their arguments.

This is exactly what Jorge did because instead of addressing the matter at
hand he made attacks against my character not addressing the content of the
argument.

Mind you if you look to the list everyone was upset so no of course he not
discuss that content but launched into ad hominem.

I even politely sent him a private email and his response there was very
rude too.
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