[WikiEN-l] Meet the Metz

[Todd Allen]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:18:42 -0800, "George Herbert" 
> <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Cade is clearly looking for and finding controversy.  The Register thrives
>> on that.  The reality is rather different.  Rendering aid and comfort to
>> people who behave sociopathically online is not in the best interests of the
>> project.
>>     
>
> However, it's a logical fallacy to go from there to where several 
> admins seem to be on various related articles lately (e.g., [[Gary 
> Weiss]]), where they're dismissing all concerns that are in any way 
> related to those mentioned in that article, even when brought up by 
> perfectly rational, non-sociopathic, non-banned editors.
>
> If mapped out in outline, the line of argument seems to go:
>
> 1) Bagley claims that [list various claims of his, such as that the 
> Weiss article is non-NPOV]
> 2) Bagley is a sociopathic, evil harasser.
> 3) Therefore, the claims in (1) are all false.
> 4) Thus, anybody who repeats the claims should be dismissed out of 
> hand.
>
> This does not follow logically.
>
>
>   
AKA the ad hominem fallacy: Just because an asshole said it doesn't mean
it's incorrect; assholes can still be right.

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