Is there a formal logical fallacy to describe the kind of reverse ad hominem, wherein instead of someone attacking an individual (note spelling, Drich 
) instead of their position or argument, the individual throws themselves in the path of the attack on their position to make it personal?
If there isn't, I want to lay claim to the Bodyguard Fallacy.
) instead of their position or argument, the individual throws themselves in the path of the attack on their position to make it personal?If there isn't, I want to lay claim to the Bodyguard Fallacy.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
