Godwin
Online debate principle
Godwin is a surname and given name of Old English origin.
It appears most often in reference to Godwin's law, the internet adage that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis approaches one.
This thread has already hit Godwin.
To "Godwin" a discussion is to make such a comparison, often ending productive debate.
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- NazismGerman fascist totalitarianism
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
- fallacyError in reasoning
- reductioDisproof via contradiction
online · discussion · rhetoric · internet · analogy · debate · hyperbole · extremism
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
- WinchesterLever-action repeating rifle
- HaroldTraditional masculine given name
- WessexEarly medieval English kingdom
- EdithTraditional feminine given name
nobility · dynasty · house · patronymic · England · medieval · Norman · Hastings
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- ShelleyEnglish Romantic surname
- MaryCommon feminine name
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- radicalismPursuit of sweeping change
novelist · pamphleteer · rationalism · Enlightenment · utilitarianism · Romanticism · dissent · freethought
Hitler
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
reductio · online · discussion · rhetoric · internet · analogy · debate · hyperbole · extremism · counterargument
Anglo-Saxon
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
- WinchesterLever-action repeating rifle
- HaroldTraditional masculine given name
- WessexEarly medieval English kingdom
Edith · nobility · dynasty · house · patronymic · England · medieval · Norman · Hastings · 1066
anarchism
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- ShelleyEnglish Romantic surname
- MaryCommon feminine name
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
radicalism · novelist · pamphleteer · rationalism · Enlightenment · utilitarianism · Romanticism · dissent · freethought · liberalism
- Medieval NamesAlfred, Baldwin, Beatrice, Blanche, Edgar
- Anglo-SaxonsBeowulf, Mercia, Wessex, Northumbria, East Anglia
- Anglo-Saxon NamesEdgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Oswald
- enlightenmentVoltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Montesquieu
- Enlightenment FiguresVoltaire, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, John Locke
- AnarchistsGoldman, Emma Goldman, mutualists, collectivists, individualists
Godwinconstitutional amendment
Formal change to founding law
statute · legal code · legislation · legislative act · ordinance
Godwinconsensus
General group agreement
resolution · mutual understanding · common ground · agreement · synthesis