Originally posted by rwingett
The assumption in Godwin's law is that all comparisons to the Nazis, or Hitler, are either unjustified or overkill. It seems to me that it is most frequently invoked by people who are too lazy to deflect the comparison by other means.
Perhaps a new law is called for (Penfold's law?) which states that: As online discussions involving comparisons to Hitler grow longer, the probability of Godwin's law being invoked approaches 1.
Or perhaps there's just a great many debates on regimes which are inherently crap and very fascist-esque in their behaviour.
The people who scream blue murder about Godwin's law (and defer to it most) are generally right-wing, pro-life, anti-abortionist, pro-war, Christian bastards.
God-awful people, who, ironically, could do with a bit of exterminating.
The sort of people you tend to find online... but actually never really meet in real life... because they'd be chased out of a pub, thrown from a window or puked out into a bucket.
Jist sayin'...