Such labels as "sectarian," "dogmaatic," "utopian" (applied to people rather than ideas), etc. are merely 20th-c embodimeents of a rhetorical device recognized and labelled a couple thousand years ago: it's called poisoning the wells of discourse." Probably most who commit this logical fallacy do so unconscious of the tradition or of the standdards of rhetoric in rational discourse, which excuses them as people but still disqualifies them as useful participants in any discussion.
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