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When I read a critique of an article that starts with a personal attack on the writer, I take the critique much less seriously.
by khafra 16y ago
When I read a critique of an article that starts with a personal attack on the writer, I take the critique much less seriously.
- paganel 16y ago> When I read a critique of an article that starts with a personal attack on the writer, I take the critique much less seriously. I don't have anything personally against Krugman, why would I? It's just that when you write a 8-page article in the NY Times bashing the Euro and you don't mention the protests in Hungary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_protests_in_Hungary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_protests_in_Hungary), which practically demonstrated that an European country not affiliated to the Euro cannot devalue its currency, then I'd say you deserve being criticized by anonymous guys like me on the internets.
- khafra 16y agoI'm not saying your critique is wrong (although I'm not sure how programming taught you that putting in more hours always means getting more work done), just that "Like always, Mr. Krugman gets it wrong" crosses the line from attacking the argument to attacking the arguer.