On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:53:17 -0600, "Fred Smith"
wrote:

If your argument is strong enough, you don't have to sink to personal
attacks. When you attack the other person (by saying things like "idiot" and
"stupid") you have lost the argument.


That claim has always been false from the get go. Ooops, you lose, and
ooops, you are also an idiot, and no, that does not trigger an automatic
loss of the argument, you never properly raised, undereducated,pointless
ditz.