Colors are a a continuous spectrum, yet we put them in a bunch of categories.

Organising people by the colour of their skin makes exactly as much ontological sense as organising library books by the colour of their cover.

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simianwords 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you see the fallacy you are doing here? The parent tried to suggest this: simply because a thing can be in a spectrum doesn't make it unworthy of being a category. You've twisted that analogy into this nonsensical book example.

	▲	dofm 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not a fallacy, it’s a bitter, dark joke.

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happytoexplain 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It sounds like this is an analogy in support of the parent - is that the intent?