Ad hominems are not useful dialectically either. Your emotionalism is leading you away from the truth, which will lead to bad reasoning and, therefore, bad out

Ad hominems are not useful dialectically either. Your emotionalism is leading you away from the truth, which will lead to bad reasoning and, therefore, bad outcomes. Edit: "Look, the fact is that meritocratic beliefs eventually boil down to eugenics and race realism at some point." This is one place, among many, where your reasoning is faulty. This may be a limiting case of meritocracy (I am not committing to that, but I can see the argument). But I am not arguing for pure meritocracy. Rather I am arguing for giving both luck and merit proportional consideration, and varying that proportion over success curves. This is more complex than the manichean viewpoint you are arguing, but I believe it conforms with reality more closely. I oppose both eugenics as well as racial reasoning (race is such a broad genetic category as to be meaningless in most discussions) on both logical and religious grounds.