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To: dayglored
We're trying to avoid invoking Godwin's Law, and the surest way to do that is to let the discussion degenerate into reductio ad Hitlerum.

Yeah, but what's the fun in that?

77 posted on 03/23/2009 12:06:37 PM PDT by zeugma (Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
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To: zeugma
>> We're trying to avoid invoking Godwin's Law, and the surest way to do that is to let the discussion degenerate into reductio ad Hitlerum.

> Yeah, but what's the fun in that?

Well, I enjoy the conversation, repartee, good argument. Once you trigger Godwin's, you lose.

Unless, of course, the other person really -is- a nazi, in which case the argument was sorta pointless from the git-go...

78 posted on 03/23/2009 1:02:14 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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