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You are wrong, because you think that ad hominem is merely calling someone an idiot. Its not. Ad hominem is WHEN YOU ATTACK SOMEBODY INSTEAD OF HIS ARGUMENT.
2 situations:
a) I say: people who think 2+2=5 are idiots
b) Somebody says: 2+2=5. I respond: you are an idiot (instead of arguing his argument I attacked him personally)
b is ad homonem, a is not.
Merely using word idiot is not ad hominem.
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