On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:08:38 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-06-11, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:59:42 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

I hate analogies. They are almost always done badly. People draw an
analogy, then nitpick every detail. Almost always derails things.

Analogies are useful for clarifying points, not for trying to back up
arguments. The foundation for the argument must come from somewhere else.

Indeed. Elsewhere in this thread a car analogy was brought up to
support an argument and the discussion spilled over into talk about car transmissions and differences between cars in different countries.

Just so. And *nobody* ever bothers to fixup the Subject:

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