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Re: Thread Nazis! (was Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party)
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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 05:56:30 GMT
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:50:02 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> Consider this; perhaps it will help placate the pendant in you: the • <pedant>pedant</pedant>
> Nazi-thread-death convention is not Godwin's Law, merely derived from it.
I know. That corollary is mentioned in several places, though, and in
its original form, and almost all others, refers only to Godwin's Law
-Strict.
> And as a tradition, it's often been that bringing Nazis into your argument
> in any way is grounds for losing.
Often, yes, majority, no. Not that this is an issue for majority vote.
Hey, I've had this argument twice over the past few months with
various BOFHs, many of which have been on Usenet from longer ago than
I was born, and they all agree with me... ;)
Jasper
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