06-03-2014, 10:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2014, 10:27 PM by FireIceTalon.)
(06-03-2014, 08:16 PM)LennyLen Wrote: It was never supposed to be a real thing. Godwin was being rhetorical when he wrote it.
Perhaps, but unfortunately people have turned it into something much more. People get scrutinized or even banned from forums or discussion because they take this "law" seriously and it actually becomes an overarching rule, in some instances, where even mentioning Hitler or anything Nazi related gets you accused of invoking Godwin's Law. The ironic thing about it all is that it actually ends up proving the point of those it seeks to silence or discredit. It's also bad for a number of other reasons but I won't get into that right now.
Quote:Or in this case, just a joke.
I realize Lav wasn't being serious, due to the context that Bolty used in his statement.
But nevertheless I wanted to make a point about it since it came up.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)