Terrorist killed and hostages rescued in Texas synagogue standoff

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Ad hominem means "You're wrong because you're retarded", "You're wrong because you're racist" or "You're wrong because you're white male" or "You're wrong because you're X".

Statement like "[insert an actual argument here], retard" is not an ad hominem.

Original comment is much closer to ad hominem than Markimus' response.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What about this one?

The hell are you talking about retard?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Could let admins edit posts, then offensive words could simply be removed, preserve the overall content, and avoid conflict. Of course there's the danger an admin could simply start destroying content either en masse, subversively throughout the years, or simply through good intentions.

Admin edits would obviously have to be marked too.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That sounds like a quick path to a Spez nation. But I do like the idea that admins should re-post whatever they remove with the offending section removed.

But this is all squeezing blood out of a turnip.