Re: Are ad honomin attacks ever justified?

2004-02-20 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Dan Minette wrote: If a popular expert on child rearing turns out to have really botched the rearing of their own children, does that lower one's opinion of their work? The children of a shoemaker seldom have good shoes is IIRC what the husband of Dr. Ruth said when asked about the quality

RE: Are ad honomin attacks ever justified?

2004-02-14 Thread Mike Lee
Is it fair to bring up that someone railing against those drug users was an illegal drug user himself for much of the time? Is it fair to point out that he yells and screams about police action against him that was in line with what he advocated for others? You know what? Screw Rush

Re: Are ad honomin attacks ever justified?

2004-02-12 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 2/12/2004 12:40:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would also, personally, like more arguments based on reason, and fewer on emotion. I get emotional too, don't get me wrong. But, I enjoy trying to find what the best solution is more than simply

RE: Are ad honomin attacks ever justified?

2004-02-12 Thread Travis Edmunds
Nice sentiments Dan. But how can we avoid angst? How can we avoid emotion? Especially since we are, to a fairly large degree, governed by our emotions. -Travis one things lead to another... Edmunds Meaning that, no matter what one says, it always opens up at least one more door. From: Dan