Re: Losing the High Moral Ground

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Quote from: Elwar on May 28, 2014, 10:08:46 PM

With freedom comes freedoms we do not agree with.

You hit the nail on the head.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -Jefferson

Carry on.

Said the slaveholder. Carry on.

Argumentum ad hominem

Calling one a hypocrite is not ad hominem.

No, but claiming his opinion is invalid because he's a hypocrite, is.

Argument from authority then.

I didn't use this quote to strengthen my case. He merely put it to words rather well (and just stealing it is bad)

And I impuned his moral authority. Your argument is subjective and invalid.