brilee comments on Jews and Nazis: a version of dust specks vs torture - Less Wrong

16 Post author: shminux 07 September 2012 08:15PM

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Comment author: brilee 08 September 2012 03:26:45AM 2 points [-]

You know... purposely violating Godwin's Law seems to have become an applause light around here, as if we want to demonstrate how super rational we are that we don't succumb to obvious fallacies like Nazi analogies.

Comment author: drethelin 08 September 2012 04:41:50AM 0 points [-]

Godwin's law: Not an actual law

Comment author: anonymous259 08 September 2012 06:58:12AM 2 points [-]

Or actually: a "law" in the sense of "predictable regularity", not "rule that one will be punished for violating".

In which case the post exemplifies it, rather than violating it.