Re: Kinky Comics of the Day, 1 Dec (FBOFW Spoiler?)

On 2 Dec 2005 14:25:17 -0800, "bllbickel" <billbickel@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>Rob Wynne wrote:
>> Paige <paigekeaton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> Peter Trei wrote:
>> >>
>> >
>> >> A ruling please ... does citing Wallis Simpson count as triggering
>> >> Godwin's Law?
>> >
>> >
>> >Only if the thread dies.
>> >
>>
>> *sigh* No, no no...
>>
>> Godwin's Law doesn't state that a thread dies once someone mentions
>> Hitler or Nazis. Or Wallace Simpson. Godwin's Law merely states that
>> the longer a USENET thread continues, the odds that someone will draw a
>> comparison to Hitler or Nazis (or Wallace Simpson) approaches 1.
>>
>> Now, it's a well known corollary of Godwin's Law that once someone *has*
>> made a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis (or, indeed, Wallace Simpson),
>> the thread is over and the person who brought up the comparison has lost
>> the argument. But that's not actually part of the law itself, just an
>> ad hoc agreement on the part of the USENET society to cut short tiresome
>> arguments, once Hitler or the Nazis (or Wallace Simpson) have been drug
>> into it.
>
>Whihc of course brings to mind the classic Soap on a Rope strip where
>one of the characters quotes Godwin's Law and another character points
>out that it's a discussion thread about WW2.
>
Does Godwin get invoked if someone brings up Godwin and then mentions
the Nazis and etc.?

I'm guessing almost all discussion of the European theatre of WWII
violates Godwin.
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