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"Is murder okay, as long as you're murdering Hitler?"
by brink 9y ago
"Is murder okay, as long as you're murdering Hitler?"
- wand3r 9y agoPeople need to stop casually invoking Hitler when making serious or semi-serious arguments or analogies. Like, I hate patent trolls and think in game payments are pretty terrible. However lets put those 2 concepts in the same neighborhood. That neighborhood is nowhere near the neighborhood of the systemic annihilation of a population in as ruthless and demeaning a fashion as Hitler did. That neighborhood, to carry the analogy, is somewhere on Elon's mars colony if patent trolls & ingame payments are in Brooklyn.
- umanwizard 9y agoYeah, and suing someone isn't murder. Making an analogy doesn't imply that the things being compared are of similar magnitude. That's not even the point of analogies.
- brink 9y agoMy argument wasn't really serious.