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So if I walk into an arcade, and the owner stops and says “hey, we’ve had some incidents recently and you need to write down your name and phone number on this sheet of paper before you can play anything”, all the arcade cabinets suddenly stop being video games? That doesn’t really make any sense.



If you’re trying to argue by analogy, your opponent will always find a way to disagree over the irrelevant aspects of the analogy

If you’re arguing with someone who is making an analogy, you’re wasting your time because it's so easy to ignore their point.

Analogies only work between people cooperating to understand something, so just ignore ‘em if youre not working together




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