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Ad-personam attacks are not useful Clarification: "...operating systems you don't like" implies that claudius is biased and that his point about OS security is
by eeZah7Ux 10y ago
Ad-personam attacks are not useful
Clarification: "...operating systems you don't like" implies that claudius is biased and that his point about OS security is made invalid by that.
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- cryptarch 10y agoIt's "ad-hominem", but I agree.
- pessimizer 10y ago"Ad-personem" and "ad-hominem" are equally accurate in this case, because it wasn't either.
- cryptarch 10y agoI done goofed. I wasn't even aware what an "ad-personam" was. I found a related question on Quora and that explained it quite well I think. Quora question: https://www.quora.com/What-are-concrete-examples-of-ad-hominem-and-ad-personam-Are-they-the-same-or-is-there-a-difference https://www.quora.com/What-are-concrete-examples-of-ad-homin...
- lorenzhs 10y agoThat's true, but this isn't one. This is what respectfully disagreeing looks like. Ad hominem would be "No, you're an idiot and people don't care what you think just because you disagree with choices they made". That would have been inappropriate.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoThe implication was there - that a point was made 'only' because of an os they didn't like. Its Ad-Hominem. It was pretty far from 'respectfully disagreeing'
- pessimizer 10y agoThat isn't ad hominem, though. An attack that implies personal qualities isn't the same as an attack on the person. I think the point is that someone who is choosing an OS that is controlled by a particular company has chosen to trust that company.