OT: Godwin's Law (Was: racism etc etc)
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:36:56PM -0800, ben wrote:
> what's godwin's law? that is, i'm interested as long as it goes a step beyond
Godwin's law originates from some of the spectacular flamewars on
Usenet. It boils down to this: eventually someone in an argument will
bring up Nazis; once this happens the thread is immediately dead, and
whoever brought up the Nazis has automatically lost the argument. Of
course, bringing up Nazis on purpose to end the argument doesn't count.
See more info in the Jargon File.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html
Chris Hilts
chilts@birdbrained.org
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