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To: MikeSteelBe

Whether what you’d written is true or not, you’ve stumbled into Godwin’s Law and your entire argument can be disqualified by your opponents because of it.


79 posted on 06/23/2011 11:00:37 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: savedbygrace

Sorry, you are wrong.

“Godwin’s law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one’s opponent) with Hitler or Nazis or their actions. The law and its corollaries would NOT apply to discussions covering genocide, eugenics (racial superiority) or other mainstays of Nazi Germany, nor, more debatably, to discussion of other totalitarian regimes,or ideology, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate.”


135 posted on 06/23/2011 2:59:21 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe ( "Failure to speak out against evil is evil itself" - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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