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"Odd person to imagine as an advocate of health." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
by dbz 17y ago
"Odd person to imagine as an advocate of health."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
- joe_the_user 17y agoAn Ad hominem attack is an attack which cites an irrelevant quality of a person to discredit them. Citing a relevant behavior of someone is well within acceptable discourse. Suppose a famous scientist is exposed as having faked a well-know result. Does that make you go back and look at his or her other results? Well, yes. Someone tells you to put health first while selling a product widely disparaged as destroying people health? Relevant, I'd believe so.
- dbz 17y agoThis person was telling people to spend time with family. The fact that he is the CEO of coke which may or may not be healthy is completely irrelevant.