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"And yet Big Yud refuses"

Please don't try to argue by name-calling. A strong argument is stronger without it.

"DH0. Name-calling.

This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common. We've all seen comments like this:

    u r a fag!!!!!!!!!! 
But it's important to realize that more articulate name-calling has just as little weight. A comment like

    The author is a self-important dilettante. 
is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."" - http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html


That didn't seem like name-calling to me.




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