[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end

PE>John McCreery wrote:

JM>"the Gestapo ..."

PE>Godwin's Law.  (One of the few contributions of Usenet to society.)

PE>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

The Wikipedia article says

>The law's memetic function is not to end discussions (or even
>to classify them as "old"), but to make participants in a
>discussion more aware of whether a comparison to Nazis or Hitler
>is appropriate, or is simply a rhetorical overreach.

so it is inappropriate, even perhaps rhetorical overreach,
to cite the Law in reply to John.



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