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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
9:28a

Because someone asked for it, and in case there isn’t a law for it, here’s my proposal.

The name for this particular proposed piece of jurisimprudence shall be known as misstyzek’s “cry rape” Substitution:

This is a variant of Godwin’s Law: therefore Godwin’s Conundrum and its subsequent corollaries apply as well. The substitution is as follows:

As per Godwin’s Law, but replace “Nazis or Hitler” with “rape”.

Included in this proposal is a formulation of Godwin’s Conundrum, which is as follows:

Is Godwin’s Law supposed to be observational or legislatory? In other words, do you break it, or does your behaviour conform to the law’s predicted observation?

This is followed with a Corollary, which could be called Godwin’s Conundrum’s Substitution, but for some reason strikes me as an extremely convoluted and stupid name. Suggestions for a better name are welcome:

This is a variant of Godwin’s Law: therefore Godwin’s Conundrum and its subsequent corollaries apply as well. The substitution is as follows:

As per Godwin’s Law, but replace “a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler” with “a pointless argument based on the premises of Godwin’s Conundrum”.



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