It is not ad hominem to ask, "If a 'philosopher' lives no better than that, why listen to what he says?"
It is hard, though, to pick the worst: (1) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a simpering slug who left a toxic trail of self-pity and self-praise across a landscape of broken lives, beginning with those of his own
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Thinking that all ad hominem considerations are fallacious is the tell-tale mark of a middlebrow mind.
Don Boudreaux has a silly piece today defending the Great Barrington Declaration and AIER by acting as the arguments against the GBD are ad hominem. There's been considerable direct takedowns of the GBD
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