FTFY.

Stereotyping is sometimes warranted. Ad hominem is NOT. Ever. It's disingenuous and psychologically dishonest. It's selfish and neither informative nor constructive.

I see what you did there. I like it.

I'm no stranger to stereotyping, and I recognize that applied accurately it's a useful survival skill. That wasn't merely what he was doing, though. The distinction between stereotyping and ad hominem was distinct enough in this instance. I no fan of hunters, either, having a particular distaste for killing anything that doesn't "need killin'", but that doesn't drive me to uniformly marginalize all of them as drunken idiots. Some of them are... Dick Cheney.

Congratulations on having a tribe of buddies who will mod you a +5 Informative even for using ad hominem - "drunken idiot hunters" - to marginalize others and reinforce your own bias. The alleged idiocy of the hunters is not really made apparent by your remarks, but those remarks certainly make your own idiocy apparent.

He was confirming and reinforcing his own bias. It's ad hominem; he was marginalizing his perceived opponents. You should know what comes next (and it did). If there's anyone who should truly be marginalized, it's people who engage in this mental tactic and delusional thinking.

What are laser-wielding sharks doing in space? Thank goodness they're just taking orders from NASA!

I think it's your samantic antics that are off! Off the hook, anyway. Me, I spit out nothing but pearls of wisdom and I'm not in the least bit crabby.

Did you mean mussels? In space?

I can't decide if that's a pleonasm or a tautology, but don't do either, okay?