I don’t have any skin in this game but just want to point out that “I understand you are hurt and angry” is an attempt to empathize with you, and not an ad hominem fallacy.
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Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months agoBut you have to understand there are people out there from all around the world
That doesn’t change anything, whatever country you are from, using Xitter means you are using and thereby supporting a fascist platform.
You are in your own bubble
OK, and which bubble is that?
Seems to me that you are talking about things you don’t know shit about.
TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He/She doesn’t understand anything, he/she doesn’t know me.
If the comment was along the lines of: I understand IF you are hurt and angry, it would be completely different and not presumptuous.
But thanks for pointing out a possibly poorly worded good intention.
As he wrote it, it looks like an ad hominem, because it looks like he accuses me of being emotional and irrational in my argument, which I think I argued based on reason, even though some here disagree in my point.I hope you can at least agree that it was poorly worded.
TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You don’t just get to call any words that you don’t like, or even words directly attacking you, an ad hominem. A statement is only an ad hominem if 1) it’s attempting to refute an argument 2) by attacking the character/motive of the person making the argument INSTEAD OF the actual content of the argument. “Your argument is wrong because you’re an idiot” is an ad hominem. What the other commenter said to you is not. Note that people claiming “ad hominem” on statements that are not are sometimes said to be committing an “ad hominem fallacy fallacy.”
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A statement is only an ad hominem if 1) it’s attempting to refute an argument 2) by attacking the character/motive of the person
Which is EXACTLY what he did.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I see that the emotional level is too great for any discussion. Good luck to you, I hope you get a moment for yourself and have a nice rest of the day.
Good bye.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I see you are unable to actually argue your point, and instead choose to continue with the ad hominem.
I’m still interested to hear what bubble it is you consider me to be in?
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m just gonna go ahead and say it:
You need to touch grass as in pronto