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Sent: March 19, 2006 15:56
Subject: and now

sectarianism. Is nobody safe from your ignorance and bigotry?
 
DM has never really understood what an ad hominem is. It has nothing to do with rudeness. All ad homs, as a form of logical fallacy, are a variant of "Your disagreeing with me is just an intellectual failure on your part. Hence I am right."
 
The rude parts are just incidental extensions of the first sentence, of the form "...resulting from your being Catholic, Calvinist, prejudiced, poorly-read, Canadian, Communist, stupid, deceived by the devil, blind, itchy-eared, liberal, [fill in the blank]."
 
D

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