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So your critique of nuclear energy (a position) is somebody who over-zealously evangelized the technology (their character)? This is about as ad hominem as stan
by z3c0 4y ago
So your critique of nuclear energy (a position) is somebody who over-zealously evangelized the technology (their character)? This is about as ad hominem as stances come.
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoI also have all the practical concerns I put in bullet form at the end of my post. The characters I met in the nuclear lobby just motivated me to think about it.
- axus 4y agoSort of like arguing that Trump and his supporters would make a bad president, based only on the crazy things they say
- z3c0 4y agoNo, it is not, and I'll go so far as to suggest that you actually know that but are choosing to misrepresent the perspective (aka a strawman fallacy). The value of a politician is very much measured by the nature of their rhetoric, and it's very often not indicative of their underlying character. To point out deliberately vitriolic rhetoric in politics is not an ad hominem. To say that Trump was a bad president because he's a misogynistic egoist would be an ad hominem, no matter how true it is.