Testing Godwin's Law on RHP

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It's way of doing things - practical and sensible.

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Or as the philosopher Mike Tyson remarked, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

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Kein Plan überlebt die erste Feindberührung

Helmuth von Moltke

Originally: „Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.“

No plan of operation can safely forsee anything but the first encounter with the enemies main force.

The older version:

„So stimmt sich im Kriege durch den Einfluß unzähliger kleiner Umstände, die auf dem Papier nie gehörig in Betrachtung kommen können, alles herab, und man bleibt weit hinter dem Ziel.“

Clausweitz (Vom Kriege)


In short: the pesky details can't be planned and will ruin plans.

@fmf said
In a sense, you probably have disproved Godwin's Law:

"As an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches". Wiki.

I always assumed it was applied to threads about politics. It would seem that my assumption was wrong.

I thought you were smart enough not to quote 'Wiki', evidently I was wrong.

@a-unique-nickname said
I thought you were smart enough not to quote 'Wiki', evidently I was wrong.

So, I am less smart than you previously thought?

@vivify said
Is there a way to tell if any of these threads mention Hitler or Nazis without reading each post? If by chance none of these threads mention them, it's possible we have just disproved Godwin's Law.

Thread 157721 - 23,000 posts
Thread 186433 - 11,000 posts
Thread 149753 - 5,000 posts

The rest are less than 5k but all have at ...[text shortened]... [/threadid]
Thread 187601
Thread 179032

Thread 197918

You can't really disprove Godwin's law, because it's not really a law, set in stone or based on anything but the threads of discussions he was involved in.

It's more a case of Godwin's feelings or Godwin's opinions.
Godwin was probably a whining little incel who had nothing better to do than complain that people comparing fascist behaviour to Hitler and the Nazis gets on his mammary protruberances.

God, I hate that Godwin.
Actually, don't even know the guy. Couldn't care less really.

@fmf said
So, I am less smart than you previously thought?

Yes, I'm disappointed. I thought you had the brains and Dive brought the enthusiasm.

@a-unique-nickname said
Yes, I'm disappointed. I thought you had the brains and Dive brought the enthusiasm.

No, my brains only stretch as far as looking up the definition of Godwin's Law on Wiki.

@fmf said
No, my brains only stretch as far as looking up the definition of Godwin's Law on Wiki.

Godwin's opinion...

@shavixmir said
Godwin's opinion...

Godwin's adage...