Godwin's Law, Universal

Godwin's law is kind of hilarious; it is purely descriptive, as Godwin used "law" in the scientific sense, while it is almost universally invoked normatively.  Imagine if you fell down and then someone angrily accused you of "Gravity!"  It would make a pretty good tweet I bet.

The reason any discussion will eventually result in a comparison to the Nazis is that they have transcended history and entered our secular mythology collectively as a dark god of modernity, the apotheosis of Evil in a scientific age.  So, whenever we detect the stirrings of human brutality, we see the tendrils of the evil for which the Nazis are the fullest flower at work. 

The reason Nazis will enter every discussion is not because of hyperbole or error; it is, instead, because the desire to self-righteously annihilate that which is "wrong" is universal, lurking continuously in our hearts, and, at some point or another, will animate each and every one of us as we call into ourselves the spirit of exultant destruction.  Just lets try not to have any power or guns or organizations when it happens.