Ad Hominem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

This is an interesting thing. I have finally found a word that describes one of my biggest pet-peeves with people.

for those whom don't know what this word means, and don't want to click the above link, allow me to sum up; Ad Hominem is when someone responds to an argument with an attack on a person's character or personal traits, rather than giving any reasonable counter-argument;

"I think abortion is bad because it is murdering children."

"Well, that's because you are a Republican."

Being a Republican doesn't make abortion good or bad. It has, in fact no bearing at all on the case stated by the person starting the argument. The problem is; if person A is, indeed, a Republican, what can he/she say? No? The argument is therefore stopped and person B "won"... but not for any good reason.

Why Guy, you may ask, did you post this in your Blog?

I'll tell you,

Ad Hominem is Latin for "argument to the man" or "argument against the man"...

More importantly it's Latin... Which has been dead for a looooooong time... this means that people were arguing Ad Hominem 2000 years ago.

No matter how many cars and planes and spaceships we have, humans haven't gotten any more complex in at least 2,000 years.

--Hominamiha!