Because I had to know!
Godwin's Law (also Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is a mainstay of Internet culture, an adage formulated by Mike Godwin in 1990. It is particulary concerned with logical fallacies such as reductio ad Hitlerum, wherein an idea is unduly dismissed or rejected on ground of it being associated with persons generally considered "evil". source: Wikipedia
In other words, the longer a discussion on-line continues, the more likely something is gonna be compared to Hitler. This doesn't neccessarily discount the comparision, only it's likelyhood. Interesting, huh?
4 comments:
It is interesting...I knew you'd look into it. No matter what your views are you can find just about anything someone really hates compared to Hitler.
most interesting indeed
hmmm... didn't know there was actually a law about it... most interesting
well, i do like to be informed! and hate and hitler do go hand in hand!
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