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That's like saying "It took me a month to hand-make this cupboard. If someone made a cupboard in just one day using a machine, do you think I'd trust it?".
by ghusto 5mo ago
That's like saying "It took me a month to hand-make this cupboard. If someone made a cupboard in just one day using a machine, do you think I'd trust it?".
- happytoexplain 5mo agoOnly you can prevent tangential arguments about analogies.
- ghusto 5mo agoTook me a while to understand what you meant by this, and I hope I got it right: If I use a simile or analogie, people will argue about that instead of my point? Possibly, but my simile was strong enough to be an example. In fact, it's something that happened (still happens to some extent) in carpentry. Note well the absense of any argument against it, but the downvoting.
- insane_dreamer 5mo agoyou totally missed the point; it's like: "thousands of people have bought, used and reviewed this hand-made cupboard over the past 10 years, so I can trust that it's good" vs "no one has used this cupboard that was made in one day, so I have no idea whether it's good or not" call me back in a couple of years and we'll talk