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Why is intensity at all relevant? Are ad-hominem attacks fair-play? The original poster called this 'idiocy' - is that an engineering term? This isn't about try
by CountSessine 9y ago
Why is intensity at all relevant? Are ad-hominem attacks fair-play? The original poster called this 'idiocy' - is that an engineering term? This isn't about trying not to "make someone sad" - the OP has gone much further than "making someone sad".
- wyager 9y agoBecause "I disagree with this" is semantically different from "this is stupid". They communicate different ideas. You can disagree with something without thinking it's stupid. A reader can and probably should react differently to a post being intelligent, but wrong, versus being just plain idiotic. The post on question also didn't call the author an idiot, just said that the paper was idiocy. That's not ad hominem at all.
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