[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 15:14:31 +0100
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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