new fortune.

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@@ -40803,4 +40803,13 @@ enlightenment.
   -- Tulku Thondup, from "The Heart of Unconditional Love: A Powerful New
      Approach to Loving-Kindness Meditation", published by Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics,
+its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who
+glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about
+the Holocaust.
+  -- Mike Godwin, on "Godwin's Law", originated in 1990, which (paraphrasing)
+     states that any online discussion will eventually devolve into a
+     comparison with Hitler or Nazism.  At that point, the person who brought
+     either topic up has lost the argument and their basic credibility.