Structure A Dialogue In Order To Avoid Inappropriate Attacks (Essay Sample)

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A personal attack is also known as an Ad hominem argument. It means attacking an individual’s character, beliefs, religion or emotions instead of replying to an argument. An appeal to a legitimate authority is using a reliable authority as evidence in an argument while an appeal to an illegitimate authority is using an unreliable authority as evidence in an argument CITATION Eps17 \l 1033 (Epstein & Rooney, 2017).
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There are a couple of ways to direct a dialogue to avoid personal attacks. An individual can focus on the facts of an argument and avoid venturing into opinions. One can also decide to totally disengage from the discussion. If you realizes that someone is agitated during a discussion, you can differ the conversation to a future time when he or she is feeling better. You can also develop an agency CITATION Eps17 \l 1033 (Epstein & Rooney, 2017). This is basically evidence to which you can point to when someone brings your values to question. The idea is to make you believe in your values even more and hence prevent the attacker from shaking them.
There are various ways to discern whether an authority is legitimate or not. One should ask themselves who is the actual authoritative source, is the source a real authority or only a perceived authority. In an academic setting, the expert authority will be a qualified professional with known published papers enabling others to gauge him/her or the journal or organization accurately. One should also ask if the authority is qualified in the area under study. Being an expert in one field does not qualify one to make comments in another. The fin...