Ad hominem and consider not Satan’s words

It is not often you can see the deployment of formal logic on a social website.  And as such, your flags of critical judgement should be set aglow.  Some who consider themselves a member of the “intellectual” community enjoy bantering about terms which indicate cerebral capacity.  These next words from Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. are insightful and useful to judge such situations: “I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”  Yes indeed, beyond complexity lies simplicity.

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