RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 25, 2016 at 9:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2016 at 10:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 25, 2016 at 7:30 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:(October 25, 2016 at 7:26 pm)Jesster Wrote: Insulting someone isn't necessarily doing that. You can insult someone as a conclusion of your argument against them without using that fallacy ("you are wrong, and therefore you are a big bully"). If you use the insult as a method of attacking their ideas, then yes, it is an ad hominem.
I'm not entirely sure if Dawkins has made that fallacy or not, but the way you worded it didn't make it sound that way.
Well, he generally begins with "YHWH was a big bully. He commanded the deaths of blah blah and the destruction of blah blah."
Which is true, and not an ad hom in any case. An ad hom is saying that some position is wrong (in the case of "does god exist", factually wrong) -because- [insert insult here]. L2logic.
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