(05-27-2018, 09:50 AM)mikesez Wrote: When Byronlefttown and others said I was fearful and inadequate as a protector, and called me a "beta" that was also name-calling, but wasn't ad hominem. If they had said explicitly, "You're a softie, and that's why you're wrong" that would be ad hominem.  I didn't say that copycat was wrong.

I did no such thing. You are the one who advanced the idea that your family was robbed and murdered, then suggested the government's role is to investigate and punish the miscreants. Where does your responsibility come into play? Dialing the phone to report the crime? Your family is still dead, and your focus is on asking somebody else to avenge you. Zero effort was spent on preventing the tragedy in the first place.

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