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The problem with Godwin's law is if you cast something minuscule as being on par with what occurred in Nazi Germany, you're undermining the actual horrors commi
by fucking_tragedy 10y ago
The problem with Godwin's law is if you cast something minuscule as being on par with what occurred in Nazi Germany, you're undermining the actual horrors committed by humanity during that time.
If you consider everyone that's taken a piss outside of a bathroom or the 17 year old who Snapchat's her boyfriend of the same age as sex offenders, you put them in the same camp as someone who has committed real horrific crimes with actual victims.
Hope to hell and back that you or someone you care about never find themselves cast as a witch in this witch hunt.
- unclenoriega 10y agoI think there is a risk on the other side as well. If this sort of equivalency becomes common, it becomes easy to dismiss all sex offences as minor.