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  • when you "unpack" words i did not say, then yes you are putting words in my mouth. and whether they contribute to the conversation is not measured by how emotional or irrational you become in response.

    • No, that's not what putting words in somebody's mouth means, but of course it's too much to expect you to understand the terms you throw around. Also, thank you for your psychoanalysis, that's about the level or rationality I've come to expect from you.

      • moving goalposts and "i know you are but what am I?" is not much of an argument.

        • You're right it wouldn't be if I actually did did either of those things. 😂

          • you know that people can see your comment history, right?

            • Evidently, a lot of you people also lack reading comprehension to actually understand the content of my comment history.

              • ah, so your inability to make a sound argument is everyone else's fault?

                • Way to put words in my mouth.

                  • those words are here for everyone to see.

                    • But evidently not everyone has basic reading comprehension to read them as you so helpfully demonstrate.

                      • Ad hominem

                        Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a term that refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious. Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion to some irrelevant but often highly charged issue. The most common form of this fallacy is "A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is unwelcome, and hence B concludes that argument x is wrong".

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