--- James Sissel <jimsissel@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has this post gone on long enough to mention
> Nazis yet?  ;)

Godwin's Law is merely an expression of the percentage
chance of when Hitler will be mentioned in a long
argument (the length of the argument is directly
proportional to the percentage chance of Nazis/Hitler
being mentioned), and has nothing whatsoever to do
with when the argument ends and/or who won the
argument.

However, in conventional usage, Godwin's Law
traditionally has a "he who smelt it dealt it"
approach to the "winner" of such an argument, in that
the person who mentions Nazis/Hitler first is declared
completely wrong, regardless of the validity of
anything they have actually said.  This of course
means that Socialized medicine is good for everyone,
and all the other government assistance programs are
good for us as well.  ;-)