Word: hominem
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Refusing to engage in this debate casts those who take an opposing position as unfit to join the discussion. Indeed, Orr's column descended into ad hominem attacks on conservatives as frightened, oppressive tyrants, ignoring the possible justifications for their position and focusing on the contingencies, confusions and perhaps baser instincts that might have led them to hold it. These arguments don't convince anyone; all they do is give conservatives a free pass. Attacking those who begin the debate as homophobes, or saying that one is "appalled" by the very investigation of the question, creates an impression that anyone...
Bolek Z. Kabala (Opinion, May 8) correctly points out that evidence surrounding the greenhouse effect is not wholly conclusive, yet his article is more ad hominem attack on Al Gore than substantive argument. He ignores the harmful effects of depleting the ozone layer, acid rain, and the estimated 64,000 deaths each year from air pollution, according to a study done by the Natural Resources Defense Council, not to mention the environmental destruction due to strip mining, deforestation and oil extraction...