re: #635 ckb

My opinion is that you can do 1) and 2) more effectively without ad-hominems. I certainly could.

Strictly speaking, Barney did not resort to ad-hominems. He politely inquired into the questioner’s main place of residence (perhaps hoping she is not a constituent) and characterized her sign as vile. He then compared talking with her to debating an article of furniture, which he probably knows something about, having been in Congress for many years.

Ad hominem would be “you ignorant slut, someone with a wet-on for LaRouche and a bad haircut like yours wouldn’t last three minutes in a real Nazi regime - now get out of here before your ugly starts breaking photo lenses and your crazy warps the time-space continuum.”

And even I would never say something like that to a woman.

No, I wouldn’t even suggest it.