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From: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:29:41 -0600
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: Understanding the Principles of Argumentation #3
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In cases where the issue is extraordinarily boring and pointless, it's
sometimes more entertaining to attack the person.

His attack is not baseless, though.  You are being a "patronizing little
shit".  Solve the problem and move on.  Do not argue for days about a
hangnail.

} This is the third in my "Understanding the Principles of Argumentation"
} series.  Rusty has obligingly provided us with a fine example of an "ad
} hominem attack":
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