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slantedangle t1_jacy34k wrote

>It's a pity schools can't teach people not to be bellends. You'd have benefited.

It's a pity schools don't teach people to just stop or say "I don't know", when they can't answer a question, instead of relying on ad hominems to end their conversations. You'd have benefitted.

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ixid t1_jad0hb4 wrote

It's not an ad hominem, it's an insult, dummy. Check what ad hominem means.

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slantedangle t1_jae3fp3 wrote

You can certainly use insults to deliver an ad hominen, there are others, such as attacking character or reputation or with motive. Ad hominen is used to describe a strategy in which a person using it will focus on the person making an argument rather than the content of the argument.

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ixid t1_jaed3j7 wrote

ad hominem: you're wrong because you're a dick.

Insult: you're a dick.

I was doing the second of those because of your extremely condescending tone.

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