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Originally Posted by khalleron
IgnareAcademy already brought up Nazis. Too late.
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Someone started by accusing someone else of being a conspiracy theorist. I then accused this accuser of being the anti-thesis of a democrat.
The Godwin Law is the most stupid law ever invented. Because our democracies can turn into fascist states like it happened in Germany, it is important to be able to seriously talk about the real ways in which a country dangerously goes on a slippery slope towards fascism, by becoming less democratic whether through new laws, attacks against intellectuals, conformism, censorship,...
The Godwin Law allows short-sighted, conformist, anal persons to stop a serious discussion because of ONE HISTORICAL word. One word from a period in history that we should never stop to reflect about.
But many optimistic (unconsciously weak/fearful ?) persons prefer not to seriously think about that.
Quote: "MobileRead is one of the few places on the 'net where folks can engage in intelligent discussion of differing viewpoints without having to deal with rudeness"
I find that very naive. An intelligent discussion requires first and foremost intelligent persons. Does being a member of this forum magically guarantee that? No way! Many people who read a lot of books do that because they are anal: they accumulate books like others accumulate money, objects, whatever. Others read a lot of not particularly intelligent books like others watch a lot of movies/series.