Quote:(07-25-2016, 07:16 PM)bristo Wrote: You seem to be just using ad hominem attacks instead of explaining the full story.
As someone who spend a lot of time and money studying linguistics, rhetoric and logic, I must inform you that you're using that term incorrectly.
You may not have directly attacked his character to counter his argument, but you definitely did.
Quote:(07-25-2016, 07:16 PM)bristo Wrote: You never mentioned anything about your child in all this talk about how the system did you wrong, you just complained about your finances. (You have the right obviously). But you can understand how some of us can assume that you not getting custody didn't bother you.
My child is none of your business. The conversation at hand was corruption in the child support system and Banksy's claim that child support was "hard for mothers to get" and not a big deal. Thus, my main arguments were targeted at destroying that myth. Anything outside of that myth (including information about my child) was beyond the scope of the discussion and again, is none of your business.
I think the conversation at hand was whether pregnancy was more of a risk to a woman than a man, but whatever you obviously care about the outcome of this conversation way to much. I will not "go to war" over a stupid conversation. Live how you want...