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Re: The Very Simple Rule: Applying Logic in Reverse

Clogwog sock wearing his wooden high heels wrote:
> "High Plains Thumper" schreef...
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> If Microsoft (or its henchmen) hates something, it means
>>> it's bad for Microsoft.
>>> 
>>> Think: Linux advocacy, critics.
>> 
>> http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf
>> 
>> Slide on PDF page 45:
>> 
>> "/Mopping up/.
> 
> YAWN! [snip dizum dipwad ad hominem crap]

This is an example of:

http://tantek.pbwiki.com/TrollTaxonomy

[quote]
Ad hominem troll

Ad hominem troll at its simplest, will attack people personally,
rather than the merits of their statements or methodologies.

The ad hominem troll often has already lost a rational argument
about a topic, and thus its goal is to change the argument from
being about a topic, to being about the people opposed to the
troll (which could mean any/all rational person(s) in the
discussion), in the hopes of both discrediting people's ideas
indirectly by discrediting the people, and engendering an
emotional reaction from the people by attacking their egos /
self-image. The "getting a reaction out of" goal is common to
most troll types.
[/quote]

Dizum dipwad cannot argue the truth, and thus must resort to ad
hominem attacks as a luser strategy.

-- 
HPT

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