On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:11:39PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > > > acceptable for the Debian project? > > > > I believe no amount of ad-hominem discussion is acceptable. > > There's a significant difference between ad hominem discussion (which I > interpret as meaning “discussion about a person”) versus argumentum ad > hominem (the widely-used but sometimes poorly-understood logical > fallacy <URL:http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adhomine.html>).
I meant 'ad hominem attacks', rather than 'ad hominem discussion'. I.e., you're making the discussion personal, rather than about the technical matter you're supposedly talking about. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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