> The syntax is the least interesting thing about the language.
> For Pony in particular, the syntax is not important ... it's simply not the point of the language.
If I can quote you literally stating in absolute terms that no, it is not important, then no, it is not "bad faith ad hominem whaboutism", but an independently verifiable fact.
You seem to be struggling with the whole fallacy thing by the way; ad hominem is using a critique of someone's character as a basis for discarding their argument. This is not what happened. You had an opinion, shared it like a truth of the world, then got upset when people didn't share that opinion.
Opinions are not arguments, there's no logical value to evaluate on them, or logical transformations to apply against them. Nothing I could have said could have possibly formulated a fallacy against you, because what you said held no actual substance: it was just an opinion, a feeling, stated with great confidence, masquarading as a fact.
And I don't even know where you got whaboutism from. The thesaurus?
Maybe I should be the one who stops engaging this rubbish.
> For Pony in particular, the syntax is not important ... it's simply not the point of the language.
If I can quote you literally stating in absolute terms that no, it is not important, then no, it is not "bad faith ad hominem whaboutism", but an independently verifiable fact.
You seem to be struggling with the whole fallacy thing by the way; ad hominem is using a critique of someone's character as a basis for discarding their argument. This is not what happened. You had an opinion, shared it like a truth of the world, then got upset when people didn't share that opinion.
Opinions are not arguments, there's no logical value to evaluate on them, or logical transformations to apply against them. Nothing I could have said could have possibly formulated a fallacy against you, because what you said held no actual substance: it was just an opinion, a feeling, stated with great confidence, masquarading as a fact.
And I don't even know where you got whaboutism from. The thesaurus?
Maybe I should be the one who stops engaging this rubbish.