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

LOl. Agreed.

79 posted on 03/23/2009 1:52:58 PM PDT by zeugma (Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
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