Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman

• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Since you went for an Appeal to Authority as the very first paragraph of your comment, a response that trashes that person’s authoritative credentials is logic in the very context you created and thus not an Ad Hominum.

  Without that first paragraph on your post you would’ve been right to claim Ad Hominum.

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  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You didnt attack any of his actual credentials, though. You just said that he should be dismissed because he wrote for a particular newspaper and the award he was given by the Swiss government was not one of the awards given by the Swiss government funded by the gift of a 19th century arms merchant.

    If you want to rebut my statement that Krugman “has a pretty good track record”, please do so! But you didn’t, and haven’t, and instead asserted your own biases as fact.

    Which is obviously your right to do but, again, is a really weird response to a “who is this guy” post.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mate, I’m not the person who answered your original comment.

      I just saw you making claims about somebody else making fallacious statements when in fact it was you who started with a big fat fallacy and then bitched and moaned when somebody else countered it by pointing out that at least one of the points of “evidence” that you yourself presented for Mr. Krugman’s “pretty good track record” (whatever the fuck such vague and ill-defined expression means) was in fact a fake Nobel prize.

      As it so happens for a while I had a lot of exposure to Mr. Krugman’s opinions - on and after the 2008 Crash, when I in fact worked in the same industry as he did - and in my opinion he was often full of shit and all over the place, at least back then, and a pretty good illustration of the caricatural Economist “who has predicted 10 of the last 2 downturns”. One could say that he likes to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.

      I’ll repeat myself: had you not started with an Appeal To Authority in your original post and just let the logic of the point speak for itself, you would have been better off.

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      • DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A mere casual endorsement is not an appeal to authority. If you don’t like the guy that’s fine, but it’s not a logical fallacy to, for example, describe a late night comedian as “a kinda funny guy.”. (A logical fallacy would require that someone assume Krugman is RIGHT because of his record, not that he’s merely worth reading )

        How is dismissing someone because of where they worked NOT an ad hominem attack?

        How is splitting hairs over which awards given by the swedish government are and aren’t “nobel prizes” NOT a distinction without a difference?

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