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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