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[Adam]

It's not an appeal to emotion if I am providing a factual basis for comparison. Ie. if I show Activity X in Case A, and Activity X in Case B.

 

[Hurkyl]

Pray tell, what is the point of making the comparison?

 

[Adam]

To clearly illustrate what is happening, and eradicate any odd illusions people may have about what is happening.

 

[Hurkyl]

And that explains why you talk about what's happening, but not why you compare Israel to Nazis.

 

[Robert Zaleski]

This statement still baffles me, but I think a clarification might help. Godwin is a name, not two words.

Godwin's law is that comparing someone to Hitler/Nazis/whatever is effectively an admission of defeat. The principle is that the only point of such a comparison is to attempt to project negative emotional responses to Nazis onto the subject of debate, and resorting to such tactics is a demonstration that he who invoked Hitler has reached the end of his ability to argue his point on merit alone.

Hurkyl, this is the definition I used. http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/Godwin_s_Law.html Maybe I'm being thin skinned, but whenever the word conservative enters a discussion, references to fascists and nazis seem to soon follow.

 

[Adam]

And that explains why you talk about what's happening, but not why you compare Israel to Nazis.

For the purposes of illumination by analogy, who else should I use? Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe? Australia back in the days of the White Australia policy? South Africa a couple of decades ago? They're all similar, just different stages of the same ridiculous ideas.

 

[Hurkyl]

So when are you planning on making this analogy?