Comments on: but not just my bias https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2783 2002-2015 Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Max Lybbert https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2783#comment-7446 Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:52:26 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2004/10/but_not_just_my_bias.html#comment-7446 Sorry, that’s not how I read the second bullet point in the 4th question of the FAQ:

If someone brings up Nazis in general conversation when it was vaguely related but is basically being used as an insult, the speaker can be considered to be flaming and not debating.

The “victory” comes from the concept that flaming isn’t debating.

]]> By: S M https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2783#comment-7445 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:55:34 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2004/10/but_not_just_my_bias.html#comment-7445 Godwin’s law isnt precriptive its descriptive. You do not ‘lose’ when you talk about hitler, it is that it is usually the case if you have resolved to bring up hilter or call another person a Nazi the conversation is effectively over.

It is good to bring up hitler not in polemics but when the comparison is applicable.

]]> By: Max Lybbert https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2783#comment-7444 Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:01:40 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2004/10/but_not_just_my_bias.html#comment-7444 Well, Matt, according to Godwin’s Law, I hereby declare victory.

It would have been better to use Bill Clinton as an example, since then I couldn’t have declared victory without posting something first.

]]> By: Matt https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2783#comment-7443 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:55:35 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2004/10/but_not_just_my_bias.html#comment-7443 Well, if there’s one thing we know about American politics, it’s that the same rhetoric that appeals to intellectuals (or, for that matter, anyone with basic critical thinking skills) does not (unfortunately) transfer well to the American public. Bush’s rhetorical strategy can be best likened to Hitler’s, who explained very carefully in his book Mein Kampf that effective political rhetoric was dumb, simple, and loud. Indeed, it seems that American voters shy away from well-reasoned rhetoric about as violently as party-happy students shy away from stern and serious lecturers.

]]> By: john https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2783#comment-7442 Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:04:04 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2004/10/but_not_just_my_bias.html#comment-7442 not gonna get stuff like this when the broadcast flag kicks in, are we?

]]> By: Anonymous https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2783#comment-7441 Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:04:52 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2004/10/but_not_just_my_bias.html#comment-7441 I laughed!

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