Tok, I like your postings but in this case save your breath, you can't teach a lifetime of stupidity to be smart, it can't normally be done, believe me I've tried with a few idiots in my time. It is a common error that clever people think others are like them but generally that ain't true, its more likely a projection of your own reality onto someone else as you see them.
tok and I are having a polite conversation despite (or because of) our differences in opinion, like reasonable people often do.You jump in and bash one participant with content-free insults.
That's *EXACTLY* the kind of toxic cult-like 'shun the disbeliever' crap a community doesn't need.
Quote from: Arthur Shopenhauer, The Art of Being Right
A last trick is to become personal, insulting, rude, as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand, and that you are going to come off worst. It consists in passing from the subject of dispute, as from a lost game, to the disputant himself, and in some way attacking his person. It may be called the argumentum ad personam, to distinguish it from the argumentum ad hominem, which passes from the objective discussion of the subject pure and simple to the statements or admissions which your opponent has made in regard to it. But in becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack to his person, by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. It is an appeal from the virtues of the intellect to the virtues of the body, or to mere animalism. This is a very popular trick, because every one is able to carry it into effect; and so it is of frequent application. Now the question is, What counter-trick avails for the other party? for if he has recourse to the same rule, there will be blows, or a duel, or an action for slander.
To pastiche Linus, "if someone uses ad personam against me, it means I won." :-)
(again, this last sentence is not about Monero and Dash but a general consideration on rhetorics and fallacies)
Excellent, so you agree that the constant insults by icebreaker and others aren't productive at all.
Or is it only wrong when he's the one being called out for being legitimately part of something shady?
