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"Finally, ad hominem arguments are fallacious on their face, and tiresome." And where do you see one in my comment? You're just flailing. You spend too much
by BobNNN 11y ago
"Finally, ad hominem arguments are fallacious on their face, and tiresome."
And where do you see one in my comment?
You're just flailing. You spend too much time on the intertubes and think what you're doing is discussing. Later. Well, never actually.
- BrendanEich 11y agoCalling me anti-gay based on a circular argument is an ad-hominem. It makes me the issue. I think that's clear. BTW it's not cool to downvote your counterparty here. Let others do that.
- DanBC 11y agoPeople can't downvote replies to their posts. There's a minimum karma threshold for downvoting - about 500 or 750. A green account is unlikely to have that much karma.
- BrendanEich 11y agoThanks.
- DonHopkins 11y agoDon't accuse people of doing things that are impossible for them to do. It weakens your statements that "Finally, ad hominem arguments are fallacious on their face, and tiresome" and "Calling me anti-gay based on a circular argument is an ad-hominem." You're being downvoted by people other than the one you're accusing, simply because of the weakness of your arguments, and your historic and ongoing failure to justify your actions. But you could turn over a new leaf now, and finally explain yourself: Which of Scalia's arguments do you agree with? And do you have any better arguments that he forgot? You're not the victim here, Brendan. Don't make yourself the issue, if you're not the issue.
- BrendanEich 11y agoYou have definitely chosen to make me the issue, Don. The personal animus you sent my way over the years on Facebook got your fake account banned, and it does you no credit. I'm not going to post that message log for detraction's sake, but people need to know that there is a log. You can't pretend to be civil here as if we are starting from a clean slate, and play _tu quoque_ games. Anyway, you interrupted BobNNN, who was making me the issue with a personal attack (that I'm anti-gay) based on a circular argument. I'm definitely the focal point of lots of anger, I get it. The 7M who voted for Prop 8 have me as single-combat avatar now. None of them have to pipe up; I'm "it". But really, any fool can find and read the arguments for Prop 8. I've made some here and cited links. Don't fixate on Scalia, his intemperate dissent is neither relevant to Prop 8 in its context, nor the best dissent to read (try Roberts). Given your pathological hate-messaging at me over the years, I'm not going to throw more words your way. You're a smart guy, read all the content here, follow the links. Don't make me or you the issue, look to the substance, not the person.