Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:50:41PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:36:33PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:46PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote:
> > >
> > > Personally I find this request unreasonable.
> > > Not unlike if Germans ask everyone not to mention Nazi's ever again.
> >
> > Um, duh, Godwin?
>
> Godwin said nothing of the sort.
>
> http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/G/Godwins-Law.html
First, I didn't say "never" -- I said "in polite company".
Second, (the weaker, non-never but merely advisory) statement is
implied: otherwise why would such a law have ever been needed?
You could just as well draw *many* other conclusions about threads as
they grow in length; why is *this* one of particular interest, and why
do people respect it?
Thirdly, the spirit of what I asked was "be nice." The actuality of
whether or not you actually express the concept "KKK" is immaterial --
it is a conscious choice for you to "be nice" -- or not. When I said
"cognitive processes preceding such utterances", it means "stop looking
for monsters in the world." That's what *they* did.
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