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That wasn't name calling. "You are stupid" is name calling, "your statement was incoherent" is to point out that the speaker failed to get his point across and
by boxed 3y ago
That wasn't name calling. "You are stupid" is name calling, "your statement was incoherent" is to point out that the speaker failed to get his point across and needs to try again. Christians have a saying "hate the sinner, not the saint", and the basic philosophy of that applies here. We must separate one from the other, something you did not do here when you accused me of name calling.
- dang 3y ago"That was totally incoherent" is definitely calling names in the sense that the HN guidelines use the term, and ask you not to do: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html