> I don't think it's irrelevant because certain foundations predispose one to certain lines of arguments. Regardless, bringing personal history into it is bad

> I don't think it's irrelevant because certain foundations predispose one to certain lines of arguments. Regardless, bringing personal history into it is bad reasoning and unnecessarily divisive at best. And at times it brings out the worst in people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority