You live in a leaky tent with a lot of holes in it. Someone suggests you'd be better in a house. "Imagine where I would be without the tent! This is a though

You live in a leaky tent with a lot of holes in it. Someone suggests you'd be better in a house. "Imagine where I would be without the tent! This is a thought experiment to test the statement of 'this tent being overall bad'. Therefore I won't move."