On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:41:26PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
> > That European governments which collaborated with the Nazis, and are
> > even now collaborating with the Nazis in Bonn and Paris, are hardly
> > good candidates for being an "escrow service" for sensitive data?
>
> Godwin's Law.
Perhaps I'm just being difficult today, but it strikes me as this is
in invalid invocation of GL. The law says:
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
First, this isn't a Usenet discussion. Second, this isn't a comparison
involving the Nazis -- this is citing history. Godwin's Law, even
if we agree with it, is not meant to make all historical references
invalid, but to avoid cheapening the Holocaust, etc.
-Declan
