But what do the users of Your Views think about it? Should cigarette packs feature only health warnings on a plain package?
Raymond (Hamilton)
I think the bright sparks that thought this up should go back to their day jobs as Nazi SS officers. Seriously. And no, I don't smoke, and I'm damned if I'll let anyone have the right to prevent me from choosing to.steve (Tuakau)
Another proof that political-correctness is a dictatorship that has stricken freedom off the dictionary. Next will be alcool, and then they will just have to apply the same rule for not thinking the waythey do. Welcome to the NZ stalag
Raymond (Hamilton)
Wow, the cigarette Nazis are out in force. Why don't you all organise a march up Queen St, or go to a gym and take it out on a punching bag? Smoking a cigarette is Not against the law. So stop behaving like it is. And cigarette smoking will NEVER be outlawed, because the government makes too much tax out of it. And no, I don't smoke, but thank you for asking.
References to the researchers as Nazi secret service officers to New Zealand as a prisoner of war camp! Classic examples of Godwin's Law occurring in the Your Views forum. As the Wikipedia entry states, Godwin's Law, otherwise known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies, "applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Hitler or Nazis or their actions." These responses are worrying not only because the likening of a unrelated situation to Nazism or the Holocaust trivialises the seriousness of these historical examples, but because they are employed by users in an attempt to make their point more convincing rather than providing a detailed argument. However, the inclusion of such comparisons in one's argument also works to generate reaction from other users, as a kind of hot-button language that will inevitably split discussion between those who approve of the use of such analogies and those who don't.
References to the researchers as Nazi secret service officers to New Zealand as a prisoner of war camp! Classic examples of Godwin's Law occurring in the Your Views forum. As the Wikipedia entry states, Godwin's Law, otherwise known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies, "applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Hitler or Nazis or their actions." These responses are worrying not only because the likening of a unrelated situation to Nazism or the Holocaust trivialises the seriousness of these historical examples, but because they are employed by users in an attempt to make their point more convincing rather than providing a detailed argument. However, the inclusion of such comparisons in one's argument also works to generate reaction from other users, as a kind of hot-button language that will inevitably split discussion between those who approve of the use of such analogies and those who don't.
Jessica P (Kohimarama)
Let's stop pretending this is a victimless habit and that an objector must be a "nazi". There's no plus side to smoking.
Freedom (Eden Terrace)
The parallels between the Nazis' progressively escalating persecution of Jews and the Authorities progressively escalating persecution of smokers is scary.
Let's stop pretending this is a victimless habit and that an objector must be a "nazi". There's no plus side to smoking.
Freedom (Eden Terrace)
The parallels between the Nazis' progressively escalating persecution of Jews and the Authorities progressively escalating persecution of smokers is scary.
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Nazi is definitely the wrong word, but perhaps latently fascist, say in the manner Deleuze and Guattari use it is applicable to the NZ context. e.g. "... not only historical fascism, the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini [...] but also the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploit us."
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