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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4184181" data-attributes="member: 2205">No they're not.  They're snarky in tone, no doubt, but at no point do they attack each other personally.Seriously; a personal attack, or an ad hominem argument—which is almost the same thing—requires that one person impugn the other person involved directly.  As long as discussion stays on the arguments themselves, they are not personal attacks and they are not ad hominem arguments.This post brought to you by a weary, pedantic jerk who is tired of seeing these two terms misused over and over again in a vain attempt to bail oneself out of an argument when someone is clearly in over their head, is clearly wrong and can't admit it, and falsely accuses the other of attacking him personally when he's clearly been attacking his argument instead (which is the correct way to debate rationally, I might add) all along.</blockquote>