This is because the prosecuters are not human, they are preditors going after the weakest in society, it is much easier to score on their carreers than taking on the stronger.
Here in Europe we know very well where this all leads to, my ancestors have lived through it numerous times, the last time in the 30's and 40's.
Godwin's Law is designed to deter inappropriate comparisons to fascism/Nazism so as not to weaken or otherwise besmirch appropriate comparisons to fascism/Nazism. The United States government has been getting steadily and incrementally more fascistic for at least the past decade, and I would not be so quick to dismiss summarily a comparison between how the US government operates and how historic fascist governments have operated.
I'm sure "thinking persons" would have considered this, but just in case:
"Never forget".
Godwin's Law wants you to. Worse still his "law" encourages the mocking of those who want say if they think something is getting a bit Nazi. Which you have done by implying a disconnect between his comment, thinking persons, seriousness and understanding.
Why?
Perhaps so no one dares point it out if it looks like its happening again? Or something else? Who would want that, and why?
I'd prefer to be wrong, than get caught short. Citing this nonsense "law" is like getting people to shut up on so called "patriotic" grounds. It circumvents logic, reason and debate. Its silences people.
Look at it, it is Nazi in its self. Do and think as you are told.
Have to wonder, if we get more suicides of this type and people cite this case as a parallel too much, will that get a law too? Will people be told to shut up?
> Look at it, it is Nazi in its self. Do and think as you are told.
Wow, what a silly take on it. The law's admonition is to not make a genocide out of a molehill. If that's Nazi and conformist, so is telling children not to fucking cry wolf. Nazis were bad, we get it. Not every policy you dislike can usefully be equated with the murder of millions of Jews and the subjugation of the European continent.
Particularly, this case of a prosecutor prosecuting someone under a lawfully passed rule bears scarcely more relation to the Nazis than to unicorns. That is why people bring it up when people Godwin a thread.
And, to be clear, no one here is telling anyone to stop talking about whether this was a prosecutorial abuse, or whether the law should be changed, or whether the situation was just.
>Particularly, this case of a prosecutor prosecuting someone under a lawfully passed rule bears scarcely more relation to the Nazis than to unicorns.
There is a distinctly "just following orders" vibe to the argument that a prosecutor is right to prosecute someone completely regardless of any proportionality of the penalties to the alleged acts of the accused, just because the law allows it.
I don't think many of the pro-prosecution folks are arguing that she's right to prosecute solely because she can according to the law. That is just one factor, at least for me. I can also see several good arguments for the law's existence, and the way I model the prosecutor's mind, she can too and views this prosecution as necessary to uphold the rights of content owners.
This is a sentiment that I have shared for a while now, but I have never been able to express it so clearly. I am glad that I am not the only one deeply bothered by Godwin's "Law".
Asserting all members of a group of people are subhuman sure does sound like something that happened in Europe in the 30s and 40s. What point were you trying to make?
Here in Europe we know very well where this all leads to, my ancestors have lived through it numerous times, the last time in the 30's and 40's.