No Going Back To Work

[allenlondon]

Apparently, people who needn’t go back to work aren’t going back to work.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/10/no-rise-in-workers-in-uk-city-centres-despite-back-to-office-plea

Is this inevitable? So many office jobs are far from useful, involving moving bits of paper around, or making phone calls, that people just aren’t going to miss a few million office workers not turning up.

A bit like many hospital clinic consultations, just as effective done by telephone, people might be waking up to the tremendous waste of time that society indulges in.

[allenlondon]

teacake (not that I've got that much faith in your opinions old chum) but I think you might be right. She usually does.

[Jackdaw33]

If calling someone a liar is not an ad hominem attack I don't know what is. Can some kind mod take pity on the rest of us and close this thread.

[teacake44]

Well AL, there's opinions, then there's always good sound advice that can come from AB.

[allenlondon]

Oh not you too, Jackdaw.

I'll explain it.

Someone says "You steal money," and "Your dogs bite people."

If that's WRONG, then you can call them A Liar. That is not an attack on The Person (ad hominem).

Naomi made certain assertions (so what's new). They were wrong. I called her a Liar. That is not an ad hominem attack.

Try this instead: I put forward a cogent defence of socialism. Rather than picking holes in my defence, she calls me an uneducated fool. THAT is an ad hominem attack.

I don't do them, as a rule. She (and her ilk) do it all the time.

Got it?

[naomi24]

Allen, I have never called you an uneducated fool … and I stand by what I said.

[allenlondon]

Subjunctive, naomi.