The Lexicon · claim #051 of 233
All they've got is ad hominem — and I already went through the therapy™
The pre-emption of the personal attack. The oldest move in the fallacy book is to go after the man instead of the argument — and it only wounds someone who hasn't faced himself. He already did the work, on the record: the therapy, the ward, the reckoning named out loud. So the attack lands on a man who already conquered the man; there's nothing left to dig up that he didn't surface first, in the daylight. When the only ammunition is who you are and you've already published who you are, the attack is spent before it's fired. Kin: the predicted attack, no philosopher gets accused of TDS, radical transparency (publish yourself first), vote gray, vote mindfulness. (His coin — machine's read, refine to his.)
This is one claim from the Lexicon · only humans score.