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This comment is like...the definition of an ad-hominem attack.

• coldtea 9y ago
  Or, you know, the definition of an empirical observation. Which of the two, we will never know! Besides, I find fallacies useful. In real life it is often beneficial (to the point of survival) to depend on some fallacy or another for course correction or quick decision making, and the naive "avoid fallacies at all costs" believer would end hurt more often than not. In lots of cases, who says something is more important that what they say -- like when you don't have all the information on something, and don't have access or any way to check the numbers and run the tally by yourself, but are relying on information that people who have huge interests (and people who work for them) control.