Like I said, arguing that the ideas espoused by a person are bad because the person has a bad…
Like I said, arguing that the ideas espoused by a person are bad because the person has a bad character is the ad hominem fallacy. It doesn’t follow, logically. Nothing you’ve said actually appears to be relevant to the content of the article, in other words. Nobody is trying to claim Jefferson was a good man. The article’s about his ideas in this speci…
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