Does Godwins Law apply in the real world?
Actually, yeah, but usually discussions in Real Life end by somebody wandering off in disgust before it can be invoked. • Are there any topics that lead directly to Godwin Invocations? Well, yeah. Of course. Case’s Corollary to the Law states “if the subject is Heinlein or homosexuality, the probability of a Hitler/Nazi comparison being made becomes equal to one” – but that’s just an old list. Abortion and gun control debates always lead to Nazi comparisons; talk with a Libertarian for more than a few hours and he’ll almost certainly bring up Nazis; book-burning is pretty much considered a sub-topic of Nazism at this point. Hell, talk about anything politically related and you’ll eventually get there. If you’re really bored, a fun game to play is Six Degrees of Godwin. Take a topic – any topic – and see how quickly you can relate it to Nazis using legitimate topic drift methods. For example: a discussion about computers will eventually lead to discussions of keyboards and which are bes
