I should add to this that attacking the person instead of the argument is, sadly, something that is all too common today and possibly exacerbated by the Pavlovi

I should add to this that attacking the person instead of the argument is, sadly, something that is all too common today and possibly exacerbated by the Pavlovian reactions of the unthinking masses in social media. It is far easier to attack the person than to do the sometimes difficult work involved in truly evaluating what they might be proposing. This is a particularly cruel and unfair fallacy as well. What it means is that if a person makes a mistake someone can put their finger on nothing that person says or does ever in their entire lives will be deemed worthy of evaluation. Everything they do or say from that point forward is false, invalid, wrong, not acceptable. Why? Because of who they are. That is not a society of which anyone would want to be a part. Anyone who has ever made a mistake or said something wrong in life should be able to understand just how wrong it is to look at the world in this manner. Not one human being on this planet can claim not having been wrong one or, more than likely, hundreds, if not thousands of times. This is why in Logic we are taught that arguments have be be evaluated for correctness and soundness (two different things) without any regard for the source.