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Old 12-17-2008, 07:37 PM   #20
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Re: a boy named 'Adolf Hitler'

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Originally Posted by Jaxon View Post
It's not about such superficial responses. It's about the principle of naming your child after an international hate figure, a noun that embodies such strong imagery and association that everyone knows what the man stood for. Godwin's law, for a lulzy example. If you start letting people being able to casually name their children after Hitler, especially when they're in a country where the name isn't usual, then you really start to trivialise a vital part of the 20th century.
What are you basing your morality on because I still don't see how I am violating anyone when I am naming my kid Adolf Hitler. What right of someone's am I breaking?
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