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		ziddoap 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone at YouTube needs glasses >This is called "appeal to authority" and it's a pretty unintelligent logical fallacy. Do better next time. Maybe read a book or two? This is called ad hominem, and has no place here.

miningape 10 months ago [–]

It's only ad hominem when the argument is an insult.

In this case there's an insult inside the argument, but importantly the insult is not the argument being made. Therefore it is not ad hominem.

ziddoap 10 months ago | [–]

The overall point, as you obviously understand, is that one should avoid personal insults when making a comment here.

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