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Re:“People simply empty out” by badman_ting on Friday August 16, 2013 @04:13PM (#6226502)
> Every argument is ad hominem nowadays.

Careful... http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

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Re:“People simply empty out” by qu4z-2 on Monday August 19, 2013 @01:37AM (#6235814)
In fairness, the form

  Thomas Jefferson said that [some well reasoned argument or opinion]

  Yeah, but Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. 
  [and thus we shouldn't consider his argument]
is pretty clearly ad hominem.
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