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  • The point of an ad hominem argument is to ignore a response to the issue raised by one's adversary and instead to attack the person who raised it. Adversary says: We should include more funding for education in the budget because schools are failing. Ad Hominem response: You liberals just want to spend, spend, spend. You have no sense of the value of a dollar.
  • Similar to Zookeeper's answer- instead of answering a question given to them, they choose to attack the character of the person asking them a question. You will see endless examples of this if you could stomach watching anything on Fox News.

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