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To: randog
Columnist Jeff Jacoby recently called the practice 'Reductio ad Hitlerum'.

Godwin's Law is the original term. The longer an argument or debate, the greater the probability of someone mentioning Hitler or the Nazis gets to 1.
12 posted on 01/16/2004 8:56:07 PM PST by Terpfen (Hajime Katoki. If you know who he is, then just his name is enough.)
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To: Terpfen
Interesting. Thanks for clarifying that.
13 posted on 01/17/2004 6:10:57 AM PST by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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