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peacegirl, I'm willing to go to a professional to get a mental checkup, are you? We can settle who is the nut and who is not.
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Yes, please, NA, do get a checkup. Sincerely. |
I thought you said we're not supposed to be diagnosing people on the Internet. Yet here you are, diagnosing N.A., if only by implication.
My, my. |
No, I'm retaliating, and I am justified. I want him banned from this thread unless he stops bullying. It's as simple as that. |
It's not going to happen. This is an unmoderated forum. If it were moderated, your nonsensical threads would have been locked hundreds of pages ago, just like they were every where else you posted. |
We're talking about two different things: Freedom of speech, and picking a target to bully. I've become that target and in these situations, there needs to be protection under internet law. |
If this were a situation were you could not walk away from it (like at your job or at school) then there might be some kind of protection. But you could walk away from it if you were sane. And if you can't walk away from it because you are insane and the bulling is that people want you to get help because they think you are insane, then I don't think there is a court in the land that would side with you.
If you are sane and you think you are being bullied then you can leave. You don't have to take it.
Or you could see ThreeLawsSafe with me and we could settle this once and for all.
You have lots of options, but getting people banned or threads closed or deleted because they are not going your way is not what happens on this forum. |
Um, you don't know that yet. Like I said, if your MO doesn't change, then I leave. We'll see if I have any protection. It all depends on whether your ad hominen attacks are regarded as highly inappropriate under the forum rules.
Description of Ad Hominem
Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of "argument" has the following form:
Person A makes claim X.
Person B makes an attack on person A.
Therefore A's claim is false.
The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).
Example of Ad Hominem
Bill: "I believe that abortion is morally wrong."
Dave: "Of course you would say that, you're a priest."
Bill: "What about the arguments I gave to support my position?"
Dave: "Those don't count. Like I said, you're a priest, so you have to say that abortion is wrong. Further, you are just a lackey to the Pope, so I can't believe what you say."
Fallacy: Ad Hominem
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I don't see anything about ad-hominem attacks.
But here is the thing. If you are crazy then it is not an ad-hominem attack. Calling someone what they are is just an observation. So if you try to prosecute you will have to have your sanity checked. Only if you are found sane could my posts be seen in any way as attacks.
I've already offered to leave if you would see ThreeLawsSafe with me. But you refuse.
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They should add no ad hominem attacks to their rule book, because it has no place in a serious discussion. It's unfortunate that morality has to be legislated. If anything, you could be called on
Any excessively repetitious content (flooding) |
If you want those rules, go to a forum that has them.