godwin devised his law and others built on it with reference to discussions such as the one on this talk page its antecedents lie in reductio ad hitlerum also called argumentum ad hitlerum or reductio or argumentum ad nazium dog latin for reduction or argument to adolf hitler or the nazis a modern informal fallacy in logic it is a variety of both questionable cause and association fallacy the phrase reductio ad hitlerum was coined by an academic ethicist leo strauss in engaging in this fallacy is sometimes known as playing the nazi card doing so that is playing the nazi card destroys one's credibility which is why you have been patiently advised not to do it if indeed patiwat initiated the article on banjerd singkaneti note that he also included the protest of the embassy of israel as published in the bangkok post that protest strictly my pov of course demolishes banjerd's credibility notice however that that is my pov others who prefer not to be confused by facts would believe that it is the israelis' credibility that has been demolished as for your credibility write now i think you incredibly angry which is not a bad thing to be if only you learn to focus it properly if you do learn to focus properly then you will find that you and patiwat are allies opposed to the policies of pad as practiced in present day thailand without reference to what went wrong in the middle of the last century in the middle of europe