Professor Schaff below gives a very serious reason why Chad's Chicken Hawk argument is dreadful. It is, among, other things, a classical fallacy, referred to as an "ad hominem argument." In that form, you argue that X must be wrong because X is a certain kind of person (usually very bad). But that of course is nonsense. An argument stands or falls on its evidence and logic, which is one of the reasons that every human being is entitled to his or her own opinions.
But I can't resist pointing out that is really such a thing as a chicken hawk, which is a popular name for the red tailed hawk. Here's one now:
The chicken hawk is, more or less, a short eagle. A guy like me is tempted to put that on his business card. So if Chad really wants to compare us to these majestic raptors, who am I to complain?
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