What are your thoughts on a person that uses a derogatory label in a debate?

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is it a sign of intelligent debate to label a person with a derogatory label, especially in a religious debate.

What is your opinion of people who use that tactic?
Don't assume I'm talking about fundies, lol
 
Usually it is a sign of the person becoming emotional in the argument no matter if it is religious or not. Generally, it is because the person is defensive either by taking offense at something you have said or because they do not have an intellectual response.
 
When derogatory language/name calling starts...that person has just announced that he/she has forfeited the debate...they have run out of intelligent comment.
 
I think it means they either don't have a good counter argument, or they have never learned the proper way to debate. I think any person who uses this tactic is rather low.
 
That would be an immediate sign of substandard debating tactics. If a person's argumentation skills were that poor, I couldn't take them (or their point) seriously.
 
That is a personal attack quite often having nothing to do with the matter in question. If I can be allowed to quote the Quran (even though I am a Christian), "Even a fool has his story." We are sometimes strengthened in ways we cannot even imagine by listening to arguments that we feel are totally absurd. My Grandmother was fond of saying, "What won't kill will fatten."
 
That is a personal attack quite often having nothing to do with the matter in question. If I can be allowed to quote the Quran (even though I am a Christian), "Even a fool has his story." We are sometimes strengthened in ways we cannot even imagine by listening to arguments that we feel are totally absurd. My Grandmother was fond of saying, "What won't kill will fatten."
 
The previous eight years have been filled with that form of debate.

It seems that in order to avoid the actual facts in a debate, it has become acceptable to just label the person or group with which you disagree. When focusing on the facts doesn't serve your agenda, a distraction like that comes in handy.

When people see their leaders engage in such an infantile form of discussion for 8 years running, they come to think of it as acceptable and righteous.
 
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