On Sep 16, 2015 10:06 AM, "Simos Xenitellis" <<a href="mailto:simos.lists@googlemail.com">simos.lists@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <<a href="mailto:bkerensa@ubuntu.com">bkerensa@ubuntu.com</a>> 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 (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin">Latin</a> for "to the man" or "to the person"<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#cite_note-1">[1]</a>), 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.