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Originally Posted by Balfrog
Jallanite
The rhetoric is becoming unnecessarily belligerent. It is disappointing that you are using ad hominem attacks against an author who certainly doesn't deserve such treatment. By repeatedly calling her a “crank” switches me off in continuing to try to engage in intelligent discourse.
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I agree
jallanite is overly aggressive, and that this tends to move things away from discussion and towards conflict.
However, calling someone "a crank writer"
after dissecting her actual arguments is not what is usually understood by "ad hominem".
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The fact remains that you slammed this writer even before seeing her work based on speculation from others in a different forum who also had never read her work.
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What are you referring to here? Has something been edited out of earlier posts?
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It's a shame you were not prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt and refrain frpm attacking her essay with only a quarter of it being available. In short – we can all see the mindset was already formed and that she didn't receive a fair hearing.
Can we really see you as an adequate juror – let alone judge?
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But you were the one who started the topic, asking for "any thoughts from others", regarding the then largely-unpublished essay. If it was too incomplete for anyone to be able to assess it fairly... maybe you should have waited?
And from that point on you essentially seem to be saying, "yeah, well, *I* agree with her", which is all well and good, but doesn't exactly give us much with which to engage.