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Originally Posted by Willravel
"I'm older thus I'm more knowledgeable" is an agism fallacy. "I have more experience in this subject and am thus automatically right" is an appeal to authority fallacy. Besides, no one is forcing anyone to post in or even read this thread.
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Picking out statements which
can be fallacious and assuming they're fallacious because it allows you to avoid addressing the issues in the statement doesn't do you any good, will. None of what he said constitutes either of the fallacies you've listed. He posted facts and substance which in his opinion prove his point, based on his years of experience in the field of constitutional law. It doesn't automatically make him right, but it would certainly grant him what they call "expert authority" on the material in a court (since we're talking about law here, after all).
You've posted your opinions, which, as far as anyone reading this thread can tell, are either baseless or based on shoddy or incomplete research and he felt that that style of response to his well-researched and reasoned posts was condescending.
You're quick to call out others for not being civil in heated discussions, but I'd urge you to try to read your posts in the shoes of someone else. They can sound pretty nasty sometimes.