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Not only you're responding with an ad-hominem, which is blatantly bad enough; but you're doing it against Benjamin Franklin? One of the most influential thinkers of his time who has contributed to the liberty of way more people than you ever will?


> Benjamin Franklin

Supposedly that's not his quote though?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342251


context is not ad hominem. Ben Franklin was a hypocrite.




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