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Names are a funny one.
Most people don't have a choice in their name, it's something that's given to them by their parents. Along with their schooling ("No Mater, I don't want to go to Eton, please send me to the local secondary modern.")
I tend to stop reading a comment if someone refers to "Dildo" or "Hattie Mancock" or "de Pfeffel", etc.
It's also bottom of this scale, which isn't the best foundation for an argument:-
(From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement)
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Hattie Mancock
His university nickname was worse
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Does name-calling even belong on that graphic?
You can easily call someone a cunt while refuting their central point, as long as you're not relying on that as being your argument (which would make it an ad hominem instead).
In effect, it's saying that someone's argument is flawed because they're using bad words, in spite of profanity not making a fallacy by itself.
The silly names are silly though.
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I tend to stop reading a comment if someone refers to "Dildo" or "Hattie Mancock" or "de Pfeffel", etc.
This. It's like my own automatic content filter which identifies the poster has a pre-disposed anti- agenda and I immediately dismiss their comment. See also use of B. Liar, Golden Brown, Hameron, Theresa Maybe etc etc. BEEEP goes my emergency bullshit alarm, dismiss content.
jellybaby
NotThamesWater
Jonny69
I'm not sure why, but I find the transformation of her name to dildo more offensive than I think I should. I am not trying to have a woke off.
WHy? Why do I find it more offensive than I should?