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If I say "You have a big nose, it makes you ugly" as the first line in my email, it may well be a "statement of fact" and yet still be a personal attack. Your i
by JetSetWilly 9y ago
If I say "You have a big nose, it makes you ugly" as the first line in my email, it may well be a "statement of fact" and yet still be a personal attack. Your implication that a statement of fact cannot be a personal attack is untrue.
Whether the OP has or has not written Posix utilities in rust is of no relevance to the actual argument whatsoever, it is just a way to have a dig at the OP.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoThe second part of your example is a statement of opinion, not fact -- so it's not really the same thing at all.
- Mouse47 9y agoHis argument doesn't change if you change it to >You have a big nose, it makes you ugly to me. And that is a statement of fact.
- why15characters 9y agoNobody said anything about anyone's nose though. He said "you didn't write them". This absolutely has relevance to the problem of them not being written. Writing emails does not solve a software problem. Writing software does. If you want to solve the problem, do it.