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minus-squarePregnenolone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·11 months ago It’s like trying to stop a fire by committing arson I get the point you’re trying to make, but we regularly actually start fires to prevent fires.
minus-squareDumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·11 months agoThat’s true. Maybe I should’ve picked my analogy better lol.
minus-squaresuperguy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoBig reason why analogies are fallacies: they’re never a 1:1 representation of the subject and hand and usually serve to derail the conversation by making people debate the merits of the analogy.
minus-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoA forest fire can’t burn the leaves you already burned a few months ago.
minus-squareSturgiesYrFaselinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·11 months ago🤣🤣🤣 beat me to it, like almost literally verbatim what I was going to say.
I get the point you’re trying to make, but we regularly actually start fires to prevent fires.
That’s true. Maybe I should’ve picked my analogy better lol.
Big reason why analogies are fallacies: they’re never a 1:1 representation of the subject and hand and usually serve to derail the conversation by making people debate the merits of the analogy.
A forest fire can’t burn the leaves you already burned a few months ago.
🤣🤣🤣 beat me to it, like almost literally verbatim what I was going to say.