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> Every argument is ad hominem nowadays.

Careful... http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html



In fairness, the form

  Thomas Jefferson said that [some well reasoned argument or opinion]

  Yeah, but Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. 
  [and thus we shouldn't consider his argument]
is pretty clearly ad hominem.




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