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> Calling something that a person *says or writes* "asinine" is inflammatory

Yes, inflammatory. But personal, no.

> If I were to call your defense of it "naive, brain dead and utterly absurd" are you sure you wouldn't interpret that as a personal attack?

Correct, because it's not personal. That would be attacking the quality of the argument, not me, although it would certainly be inflammatory. I certainly wouldn't take it well — but for a totally different reason than you originally specified.

"Personal" and "inflammatory" are two different things.