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Law of the day--Godwin's Law (definition + comic)
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7040e996-fae0-4ba8-bcff-7675f6d97e56/E2342E34-41A5-44FC-9E45-D705A94B5A14/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Godwin%27s_Law&oldid=155499221" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Godwin%27s_Law&oldid=155499221" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Godwin%27s_Law&oldid=155499221"><P><B>Godwin's Law</B> (also known as <B>Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies</B>)<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-0"><A title="" href="#_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> is an <A title="Adage" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adage">adage</A> formulated by <A title="Mike Godwin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Godwin">Mike Godwin</A> in 1990. The law states:<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-WiredMCM_0"><A title="" href="#_note-WiredMCM">[2]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Godwin%27s_Law&oldid=155499221"><P>As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Godwin%27s_Law&oldid=155499221">The rule does not make any statement as to whether any particular reference or comparison to <A title="Adolf Hitler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler">Hitler</A> or <A title="Nazism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism">the Nazis</A> might be appropriate, but only asserts that one arising is increasingly <A title="Probability" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability">probable</A>. It is precisely because such a comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate, Godwin has argued,<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-CRDFSDA_0"><A title="" href="#_note-CRDFSDA">[3]</A></SUP> that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://xkcd.com/261/" href="http://xkcd.com/261/" style="font-size: 11px;">xkcd.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://xkcd.com/261/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/xkcd.com/img/BF8A7EEC-CC72-452B-9642-3AE5704CA2F0" alt="Regarding Mussolini" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E2342E34-41A5-44FC-9E45-D705A94B5A14/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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