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TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoI 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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 hours 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 17 hours 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.”
laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Which is EXACTLY what he did.
TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Ok buddy, you only quoted part of what I said. You’re wrong, accept it and move on.