(November 21, 2014 at 2:15 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(November 21, 2014 at 12:18 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Fallacy of Ad Hominem..and borderline Genetic Fallacy.
Keep the fallaciousness alive, people.
I'm sorry, did you detect an argument in what I wrote? Absent an argument, it would be difficult for it to be fallacious. Do fuck off, you pompous windbag.
What I was engaging in was character assassination, or more correctly: character assisted suicide - since Mr. Hovind is really doing most of the work.
Besides, you weren't saying Hovind's position was wrong because he was in prison, just that the fact that he was in prison speaks to his moral character. The reason Hovind's position is wrong is because it is a breathtakingly dishonest example of mercantile speechifying, so full of outright misrepresentations and simple idiocy that to fully rebut it would be both a tremendous undertaking due to sheer volume of incorrect claims, and a waste of time due to the unwillingness and inability of both Hovind and anyone who would actually respect him to understand any of it. Any of you guys read his dissertation? It reads like an elementary school book report, which to be honest, it kinda is, given that it was submitted to a degree mill.
The point is, H_M has terrible taste in role models, and he apparently doesn't understand fallacies either.
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