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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think you miss the point.
Ad Hominem attacks are for when you're losing an argument. It's a last gasp. If you do them everyone will see the argument for what it is ... failed.
If you approach a discussion with the notion that you can attack the other side personally because you know they're wrong, there's a big risk of possibly (inevitably) being wrong and then losing your credibility.
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I get what you’re saying, but where your logic misses the mark is that the other party doesn’t always have the faculties to be part of an argument. When a poster says player a is better than player b even though player b is literally out scoring them by double, there is no intelligent discussion to be had.
And losing credibility means nothing online where opinions don’t change (as I mentioned my opinion earlier).