| ▲ | card_zero a day ago | |||||||
I wish to defend the hammers analogy. I don't know, our whole world is analogies, isn't it? Plus it's funny, that's worth something right? | ||||||||
| ▲ | happytoexplain a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||
True, analogies are great fun, and useful for teaching. They're just rarely useful for convincing. It's hard to make a meaningful attack or defense of something, A, by pointing to a different thing, B, without some serious case-building. | ||||||||
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