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I think you're confusing his argument with Godwin's law because of the similarity with a nazi analogy. But above all, the Godwin's law is an Ad Hominem, which is not what guimarin is doing. He's just fighting an analogy with another analogy.

I do agree that both of them have bad analogies :) But that's a different problem, it's not an Ad Hominem.




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