Sorry, but what’s with HN’s obsession with analogies? You see this in almost every comment section where someone tries to dis/prove a point using an analogy. I

Sorry, but what’s with HN’s obsession with analogies? You see this in almost every comment section where someone tries to dis/prove a point using an analogy. I get the allure but it’s intellectually brittle; by the time someone starts to argue off the second or third incantation of the original analogy, the forest has been lost for the tree.