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Ah yes, Appeal to Motive, that'll do it, now I'm not going to accept anything they said because of my interpretation of their motives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive



>now I'm not going to accept anything they said

I don't think anyone is refusing to accept anything he says. They're just disapproving of his motives, which is fine.


Open letters are about politics, not logic. What an individual critical thinker such as yourself believes has no bearing.


Open letters are about communicating a message, they are also by definition political, and it's really helpful to our social systems when they are based on logic.

Analysis of motives is of course valuable. But it's not an argument against the matter at hand. It may not have been clear that I was being facetious.




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