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

Saturday, May 28, 2005, 8:06:29 PM, Phil Enns wrote:

PE> Judy Evans wrote:

PE> "so it is inappropriate, even perhaps rhetorical overreach, to cite
PE> [Godwin's] Law in reply to John."

PE> Not at all.  It is shorthand for saying that there is little to gain
PE> from pursuing a conversation that reaches the point of including
PE> references to Nazis.  As John himself noted, it needn't have been
PE> included but the rhetorical move is obvious: Have one's interlocutor, in
PE> this case myself, defend the Nazis.

Bizarre.  Your reading, that is.




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