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I think your comment wonderfully demonstrates the utility of publishing under a pseudonym. Rather then confront the actual merits and problems with this or tha
by opwieurposiu 8y ago
I think your comment wonderfully demonstrates the utility of publishing under a pseudonym. Rather then confront the actual merits and problems with this or that specific argument, a straw man is contructed and immediately doused with ad hominem.
If the writer is anonymous, fallacious and time wasting ad hominem reasoning is prevented.
- rgrieselhuber 8y agoAd Hominem is saying that something is invalid because of who the author / speaker is. I didn’t say that these ideas are likely to be invalid because they come from people like Peter Singer. I said based on the inclusion of people like him, it’s clear (to me, at least) what kind of ideas this journal will be discussing.
- monk22 8y agoyah conflating Singer's ideas with imperialism and eugenics is just silly. Arguing about the person-hood of disabled babies is not the same as killing babies of other races because of some pseudo-science white supremacy bullshit
- rgrieselhuber 8y agoIf you don’t see the similarity, I don’t know what to tell you. The thing they have in common is arguing against personhood.