> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
>> I think Brad has finally lost it.
>
> What's that law that says when Hitler or the Nazis are invoked, argument
> has become desperate and further discussion is doomed? Is there a Stalin
> corollary?
It's mainly an Internet convention: in newsgroup arguments, invoking analogies to Hitler tends to make the debates _really_ acrimonious and hysterical. But no, there's no actual _reason_ for refraining to draw such analogies.