This place sure goes in "spurts"

[David Curtis]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:00:11 +0100
David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/20 Ian L. Target <ian69 at comcast.net>:
> > Liam Proven wrote:
> >>
> >> /me wonders if some old guard Republicans somewhere are working on
> >> cloning Adolf Hitler and Herman Göbbels for his running-mate...
> >>
> > With this post, the thread as officially deteriorated to the point of
> > worthlessness.
> >
> > See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
> >
> 
> I'm not a believer in Godwin's "Law" (or as it should be rightly
> known: Godwin's completely unqualified theorem). Why is mentioning
> Hitler a self-destruction of an argument? 

Godwin's Law does not state this, it merely states that the probability of someone using Hitler or Nazis in a comparison as the argument continues approaches 1. The argument, however worthwhile, can absolutely continue after the comparison has been made.

> Are we merely to accept that
> no modern leader can be held to comparison? I'm sure the > 5% of the
> Iraqi population systematically killed over the last 20 years would
> disagree.
> 
> Godwin Schmodwin IMO.
> 
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