Debate Guide: Your arguments must be self-serving
- "The arguments you are making stink of the well revised plotting of a self - interested pervert. You are in fact just trying to excuse your actions/proclivities, and your argument is inescapably bound up with this bias."
Do not divert from the discussion. I have presented you with arguments, and you must dismiss them with logic, not speculation. The argument is there for you to see, the author is not.
Even if I was a known pedophile, this would not detract from your duty to deconstruct my arguments, which would be just as valid on their own. Would we want to undermine the campaigning of the ethnic civil rights movement, because their arguments were in their own interests? Of course not, although it isn't surprising that it happened in the past, and continues to. And anyway, is experience not valued in most fields of insight? You could even say that deliberately rejecting, or not asking for a pedo's POV, is equivalent to excluding Party members from a vote on the Party leadership, or NRA members from a referendum on gun control!
Anyway, if these 'perverts' continue to face such a current of prejudice as you are promoting, then I will be long dead before their aims are satisfied.
Your opponent may also try to invoke guilt by association (a fallacious line of reasoning) by categorically rejecting data or arguments, simply because of the website or source at which they are located.
See also
This is maybe a point at which you should gracefully disclose whatever sexual orientation you do have, despite the fact that it has no logical bearing on the debate. For a similar argument, see: