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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...
Mikhaela Reid's editorial cartoon (Cartoon, April 27) is egregious for its mindless offensiveness, error and harmful nature. After the rather irrelevant and ad hominem fashion police argument, which effectively mocks the clothing styles of certain orthodox Jews and Christians, Reid goes on to insinuate that modesty is somehow linked to rape...
Mikhaela Reid's editorial cartoon (Cartoon, April 27) is egregious for its mindless offensiveness, error and harmful nature. After the rather irrelevant and ad hominem fashion police argument, which effectively mocks the clothing styles of certain orthodox Jews and Christians, Reid goes on to Insinuate that modesty is somehow linked to rape...
...Your ad hominem characterization of the "Gong Show" and Adams' "jingoistic residents" is quite ignorant of the conditions which excessive interhouse dining make for Adams residents. We have taken pride in the past in knowing, eating with, conversing with and socializing with Adamsians in classes above and below us. We have had scant opportunity to begin this social process in the dining hall. At lunch and dinner, half of the students eating in Adams are not House residents, and it is impossible to differentiate a House community in a place where one should indefatigably exist. Harvard is a community...