>The purpose of an analogy is to simplify something that's too hard to understand for the person you try to convey your idea to An analogy applies a principle

>The purpose of an analogy is to simplify something that's too hard to understand for the person you try to convey your idea to An analogy applies a principle to a common setting without loss of specificity. Specifically the dedicated adversary is lost in this abstraction, so it's a bad analogy.