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I was determined not to insult any of my opponents in debate, because I knew through experience that although the opposition feel no need to refrain from employing insults or ad hominem arguments, the instant our side so much as colours one word with even a tinge of sarcasm, we are immediately dismissed as unworthy of further debate.
This ad did not express any legal or policy "argument"--it was purely and simply an ad hominem attack on every gay citizen of this state.
Leavis, a prickly, puritan Cambridge literary critic, delivered an ad hominem attack on Snow of such astonishing vitriol, so reptilian in its fusillade of personal abuse, that all discussion of the "two cultures" was lost in the cacophony of scandal.
 
 
 
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