India, Pakistan and the Godwin’s law

Godwin’s law, an adage formulated by Mike Godwin stipulates, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

Since we (Indians and Pakistanis) are amply represented everywhere and since we do play a substantial role in the world today the adage could be extended to include ”As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a  word slinging Indo Pak war approaches one.” 

Lets take up rediff for example which is a very popular site here. They encourage people to comment on their news articles. However eventually all article comments turn into ugly muscle flexing irrespective of the article subject. No matter how irrelevant the news article is to the argument in hand. During the Dera row (for the uninformed, there was an ugly row couple of months back between two sikh sects which almost lead to arms), comments on news articles saw the revised Godwin’s law rearing its head again.

I have stopped reading rediff comments altogether!

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