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Old Oct 25, 2006 | 5:42 am
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Originally Posted by KevAZ
As soon as I see Nazi, I immediately deduct 100 IQ points from the poster and do everything I can to ignore their blather. It's a disgusting low intelligence habit that demeans the victims of that evil psycho.
Godwin's Law makes sense when people draw the analogy too easily, but it doesn't serve any purpose when the analogy starts to become apt.

With all respect, if you automatically deduct IQ points, etc, then you need to drop autopilot and think. There's nothing in the realm of ideas today that demands reaction without thought.

For what it's worth, the article Spiff linked to does not mention the word nazi, it merely uses Eichmann as an example of how banal evil can be.
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