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If an ad hominem is the best criticism you can come up with, it seems correct to me.
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
If an ad hominem is the best criticism you can come up with, it seems correct to me.
- bogomipz 9y agoYou might want to look up the meaning of ad hominem. There is nothing in my comment that is even remotely attacking either you personally or your character.
- sillysaurus3 9y agothat article was written by a VC
- bogomipz 9y agoSaying that an article skews to the orientation and outlook of the author(in this case a venture capitalist) is no way an attack on that author. The context of the entire comment was that this definition was not universal.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoThen what's your response to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14887245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14887245 An ad hominem doesn't need to be an attack to be an ad hominem. It's just an argument against the person instead of an argument against their argument.