Comment on How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos.
realcaseyrollins 9 months agoIt still is. You can commit to the ad hominem (guilt by association) fallacy by saying that the arguments are bad because extremists believe them or point out logical fallacies in the arguments and say that they must be false because they're logically invalid.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I didn’t conclude that the arguments are bad. Insisting it is still ad hominem is fallacious.
realcaseyrollins 9 months ago
Guilt by association is widely accepted as an ad hominem fallacy
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Ad-Hominem-Guilt-by-Association
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Guilt_by_association
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
morphballganon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What about accusing someone of guilt by association when that person hasn’t assumed someone is guilty? Do you not understand that that is the very thing you’re doing?
realcaseyrollins 9 months ago
You're the one who said this, no?
https://lemmy.world/comment/3783147
Just checking.