agip wrote:
stevenson wrote:I'm more interested in when she is going start and finish a race again. She was all over social media talking about her soon to be oxy performance yet she never started (which seemed more psychological than physical). Same scenario with the meet at Stanford. At this point she is much better at typing on a computer than actually doing anything of value in the sport. If she feels as strongly as she does, then do something. Because her blog entries and tweets aren't going to accomplish anything.
In the end I just wish she would finally race already.
I'm going to drop some heavy knowledge on you anti-fleshmanites.
the ad hominem argument is considered a last refuge of scoundrels. It isn't worth the pixels used to type it.
Here - it is officially a 'logical fallacy' to make ad hominem arguments like you are making:
Abusive ad hominem usually involves attacking the traits of an opponent as a means to invalidate their arguments. Equating someone's character with the soundness of their argument is a logical fallacy.
An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.[2] Fallacious Ad hominem reasoning is normally categorized as an informal fallacy,[3][4][5] more precisely as a genetic fallacy,[6] a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.
So... You're saying it is possible for her to be an egotistical attention whore and right on this issue at the same time?
(Here personal twitter attacks and Hasay and Rupp, and her dunce witted belief that she knows more about Thyroid disease/disorder than Steve Magness and other runners who suffer from it from an early age and have studied it for more than the ten minutes she used to connected to her bitterness for Nike not putting her on life long scholarship...aside here.)
Lauren is right on this issue.
And she has also made an embarrassment of her self on the web at times.
It is possible for two things to be true at the same time, Mr. Ad Hominem. (Could you work that term in a little more next time?)