On Dom, 07 Mar 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 1:33 AM:AKA /argumentum ad Hitlerum/. Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarianism is wrong.It's probably very safe to say you just lost any respect you had on this list by using a Hitler analogy. The analogy wasn't even relevant to boot. Hitler didn't create vegetarianism. Hans Reiser created the ReiserFS. Apples to oranges comparison.
The Hitler fallacy was incorrect, but it's still an ad hominem fallacy[0]. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem -- Harrison's Postulate: For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo@kalinowski.com.br