[90286] in Cypherpunks
Re: [cpe:4545] Mission:Critical and Informal Fallacies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob O'Booey)
Mon Nov 17 22:52:02 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 04:28:48 +0100 (MET)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
From: "Bob O'Booey" <a-hole@dev.null>
Reply-To: "Bob O'Booey" <a-hole@dev.null>
TruthMonger wrote:
>Robert Hettinga wrote:
>> Notice
>> that argumentum ad hominem is when you discount someone's opinion because
>> of who they are or what they do. Vuperative insults, it seems, are another
>> thing altogether. :-).
>
> Right... Like we're going to believe this when communist pedophile
>Nazi cocksucker Robert Hettinga tells it to us.
Careful, TM, you're starting to sound like a member of the Usenet Kook Cabal.
> I bet that when I look up 'vuperative' in the dictionary, he'll be
>wrong about that, too.
I was stuck on 'vituperative.' Shows what I know. But 'attack the messenger,
not the message' is old news here.
>AdHomineMonger
Kiss my ass. :-)
