This is what's known as "an Ad Hominem Fallacy" of logic: This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution. https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Ad-Hominem.html 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. The most common form of ad hominem 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". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Simply put, it is what you do when you can't make your case on the merits. |
| Only about 7% of the global population is atheist or agnostic with a good majority in China. The rest have faith. |
^^^ This is called Strawman argument. When someone can’t tackle the subject at hand—either Melinda Gates’ Catholicism or their own embarrassing obsessions that lead them to spend every waking moment hurling spittle on a mom’s website—they try to change the subject. A straw man (sometimes written as strawman) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one.[1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man |
No, this is incorrect. The illustration of your ad hominem fallacy was in direct response to your use of an ad hominem fallacy. The strawman fallacy was ALSO made by you, in brining up Melinda Gates' religion when the PP was clearly talking about Bill Gates, his fortune, and the charity he founded. So you fail twice. As suggested prior, you should just happily enjoy your faith which no one begrudges you. You are not good at this. |
Omg. It’s the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Not just the Bill Gates Foundation. You’re using the straw man of a non-existent Bill Gates Foundation to zero out Melinda. What is wrong with you? Oh right, you’re a miserable person who has to hate on religion every minute of the day and can’t stand to lose—which you did. |
Atheist pp who wants to zero out Melinda Gates must not be much a feminist. Didn’t somebody above say some (not all!) atheists are misogynists? |
Ha! Doubling down with Ad Hom and Strawman again! In a hole? Keep digging!
No one discounted Melinda Gates. You are the one discounting Bill. You really are not good at this. |
Misogynistic troll. |
Lol you are too funny! HAve a great weekend. |
An atheist trying to make religious people look stupid? Or just a stupid religious person? |
An atheist making a weird point that’s misogynistic to boot. Because s/he needs fuel for her miserable 24/7 DCUM hate binges. |
please don't stop
You are really quite entertaining, and I mean that sincerely. I get it now, you are trying to be funny. Nice job! |