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Comment author: chaosmosis 03 October 2012 02:30:32PM *  8 points [-]

I don't have much time to think on this right now, but perhaps an Anti-Godwin's law could be useful? Something along the lines of "just because your opponent made a simplistic analogy to Nazism, it does not follow that their overall argument is wrong".

Comment author: NoahTheDuke 03 October 2012 07:11:16PM *  1 point [-]

That sounds like a bite-sized refutation of the Worst Argument in the World.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 October 2012 07:48:00PM 9 points [-]

More compactly this is called "Hitler Ate Sugar".

Comment author: NoahTheDuke 04 October 2012 02:07:13AM 0 points [-]

Nice, I like that.

Comment author: Decius 05 October 2012 02:29:54AM *  2 points [-]

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Comment author: NoahTheDuke 05 October 2012 12:01:16PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the link!

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