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There should be a new Law as a sibling to Godwin's Law: any time someone starts throwing out quotes from Wikipedia or, worse, comments that consist solely of a
by hyperdimension 6y ago
There should be a new Law as a sibling to Godwin's Law: any time someone starts throwing out quotes from Wikipedia or, worse, comments that consist solely of a link to a Wikipedia page, constructive discussion is over.
Nothing against the parent post; I see it all the time. You just were an handy target. :)
- slg 6y agoI don't know how my comment killed a constructive debate rather than the comment that labeled my initial post "whataboutism" when it is something that objectively does not meet the traditional definition. I really don't know how I am supposed to constructively dispute that without pulling in the actual definition from somewhere like Wikipedia.