Goodwyn states when an idiot drags hitler into a conversation, that person is surrendering
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There are many
corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more
canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself)
[3] than others.
[1] For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever
debate was in progress.
[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.
Godwin's law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or
hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Nazis – often referred to as "
playing the Hitler card". The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of
Nazi Germany such as
genocide,
eugenics, or
racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other
totalitarian regimes or ideologies,[
citation needed] if that was the explicit topic of conversation, because a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing the
fallacist's fallacy, or inferring that an argument containing a fallacy must necessarily come to incorrect conclusions. Whether it applies to humorous use or references to oneself is open to interpretation, because this would not be a fallacious attack against a debate opponent.
Although falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose his argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as
censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as
hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.
[9] Similar criticisms of the "law" (or "at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes") have been made by
Glenn Greenwald.
[10]
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