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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Franklin D. Roosevelt
nosrednug — 17 years ago(February 11, 2009 08:03 PM)
By the end of the 1930s, FDR's Treasury Secretary and close personal friend Henry Morgenthau told the House Ways and Means Committee, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.I say, after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we startedand an enormous debt to boot."
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umberto_scalli — 16 years ago(January 03, 2010 11:58 AM)
His post-war plan, the Morgenthau Plan, was to de-industrialise Germany completely and bring it back to the Middle Ages. This man would have brought Communist victory in Europe so quickly and he's an authority on anything?
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nosrednug — 16 years ago(January 03, 2010 08:35 PM)
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.
Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of the person making the claim. Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of "argument" has the following form:- Person A (Morgenthau) makes claim X.
- Person B (umberto scalli) makes an attack on person A.
- Therefore A's claim is false.
The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have any bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).