If you take a design with only a couple elements, and add a new one under someone's instructions, it's not hard to make it look like something else. It's definitely a stretch to say it already has a meaning. A circle with a line down the middle doesn't mean anything, but you can outline the bottom quarter slice and make it a peace sign. Or rotate it to make a no sign. Or take an equilateral triangle and overlap another rotated and it becomes a star of david.

> A circle with a line down the middle

That's Phi

I guess, but that just strengthens my point that being a simple adjustment away from a simple symbol doesn't mean you inherit any of its meaning.

It's about people, the same kind of people who think the ok gesture means 666.

If something reminds somebody of something it gets this meaning intended or not.

"I think this has a meaning as-is because of associations with this shape" is different from "this would have a meaning if you changed xyz, therefore it already has a meaning". I think the former makes a lot more sense than the latter. And your argument above was the latter.