Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote
Tough shit. The rest of us don't have to modify our behavior to satisfy the irrational and capricious preferences of a few uptight jackasses.
See about that.
Furthermore Godwin's Law applies: call someone a Nazi, you LOSE the argument.
What a wonderful example of your misundertanding of Godwin's law.
Godwin's law is, essentially: "As the length of an argument on $ELECTRONICCOMMUNICATIONSMEDIUM continues, the probability of a comparison involving Nazi Germany approaches one."
That's not the exact formulation, of course, but that's the gist of it. Nothing about "losing" the argument. Nor should there be.
Why?
Because there are times when comparisons with Nazi Germany are quite apt--such as in the case you're having a shitfit about.
Right. So it really wasn't a Seinfeld allusion at all. It was suggesting that enforcement of policy on website articles is actually donning jackboots.
The reason that Godwin's Law has such a corollary (with Gresham's Law as applied to threaded discussion, which I thought everyone takes as read) is that once the Nazi comparison is made, the rational case for anything goes straight out the window. Whose fault? Quite obvious.
I really don't think I'm the one who is maturity-challenged here.
You're the one getting upset about stuff that doesn't matter...
Actually putting people in a pillory rather than explaining why you disagree with them matters a great deal. You are reading into my comments that "I'm upset". What I think, and am prepared to make an issue of, is the radical lack of civility being shown, to others rather than to me.
Charles
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