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NuclearDem

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3. Nothing violates Godwin's law.

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 01:04 PM

Mar 2015

Godwin's Law is simply an observation about internet discussions: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." It's not meant to assert a fallacy.

What you're thinking of is the reductio ad Hitlerum, which is an association fallacy.

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Does it violate Goodwin's Law [View all] edhopper Mar 2015 OP

No. Not when it's true. But I don't believe that the Republican Party are Nazis, though. BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #1

how can you say that? guillaumeb Mar 2015 #2

Well... Hitler did put quite a bit of funding towards building new roads. Lancero Mar 2015 #4

But Eisenhower started the interstate highway system guillaumeb Mar 2015 #7

True, though I was thinking the comparison was with the modern GOP not the old one. Lancero Mar 2015 #9

State religion? rogerashton Mar 2015 #6

I meant the NAZI philosophy itself guillaumeb Mar 2015 #11

Nothing violates Godwin's law. NuclearDem Mar 2015 #3

I thought Goodwin's Law edhopper Mar 2015 #5

That's a popular misconception. NuclearDem Mar 2015 #10

is reductio ad hitlerum guillaumeb Mar 2015 #8

I can't take credit for the wording. NuclearDem Mar 2015 #13

There is no such "law" it is an axiom largely used to frame anything short of Hitler as acceptable TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #12

They're not, and so it does. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2015 #14

Whoever appointed Godwin God did not have the authority to do so. nt Zorra Mar 2015 #15