WHY PEOPLE RESORT TO AD HOMINEM PERSONAL ATTACKS WHEN DISAGREEING

WHY PEOPLE RESORT TO AD HOMINEM PERSONAL ATTACKS WHEN DISAGREEING

 

 

Dr. John H. Braccio talks with Dave Akerly of WILS on the “Morning Wake-Up With Dave Akerly” Radio Show, on 7/11/17 on WILS, 1320 a.m.in Lansing, Michigan discuss WHY PEOPLE anamur escort kızlar RESORT TO AD HOMINEM PERSONAL ATTACKS WHEN DISAGREEING. It is sadly too often easier for a person to attack the messenger/person rather than the facts. That it often works is why it is used. It leads to persons questioning themselves and often becoming very angry and frustrated by the unfairness of the attack. The best way to deal with ad hominem personal attacks is not to argue with persons who use them because that is what they do. To ignore them and build your emotional defenses so the attacks are not taken personally are the skills needed to combat them. This is necessary even if very hard to do. The Great Roman attorney, writer, and statesman, Cicero, famously said to bully the plaintiff when all the facts are against your case. These would be ad hominem attacks. As Sergeant Friday on the Dragnet television show said long ago when questioning witnesses and suspects: JUST THE FACTS, PLEASE. Sergeant Friday would have had no success in interviewing persons making ad hominem attacks on him. Neither would you.

 

 

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