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While I agree that Alan hasn't really lived his life righteously, that's an ad hominem. But anyway, if you meet buddha on the road kill him, and beware people
by arpa 5y ago
While I agree that Alan hasn't really lived his life righteously, that's an ad hominem.
But anyway, if you meet buddha on the road kill him, and beware people claiming they have all the answers. There isn't a single truth, as this whole discussion shows, only a variety of perspectives, and I am fond of this one, even if it is a fiction.
- avgcorrection 5y agoOf course it’s an ad hominem—I just said that I think it’s better to judge someone’s philosophy based on how a person embodies it. The ad hominem is very much pertitent to the question at hand! Philosophy is for living, not for sterililized, abstract what-ifs and hypotheticals that can only be critiqued as platonic ideals, lest you be accused of committing a “fallacy” for maintaining that a philosophy should be practiced and not just talked about.