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Suppose someone is raping you: - Stop this! You're hurting me. Stop it! You'll go to jail. - I wouldn't go to jail if you just consented to sex.

• varjag 13y ago
  Suppose you're black and sit in the white section of a bus in 1950s. - Hey *, colored section is that way! You'll go to jail. - I could sit here if you white people weren't the one making the law. (That's the thing I love about analogies, they can be turned both ways and prove nothing)
  • carlob 13y ago
    No you didn't get my analogy. The parent comment was stating the point that Putin was making it illegal himself by vetoing and retracting the veto would have made it legal. The same thing happens in sex, if you consent to it, it's ok; if you don't, it's rape. That's the mechanism of consent and of veto. In your analogy there is no way the white bus passenger could instantly change the law by consenting to the black man sitting in the wrong section. It is illegal regardless of his opinion. In sex as in international diplomacy you need unanimity (at least of the security council).
    • varjag 13y ago
      Your analogy is just as flawed since Assad has no say as to consent or veto. All is being decided by the five nations in power (the white people of diplomacy). Per your analogy, Russia is not an agent on either side. The whole analogy business in arguments is one witty exercise in strawman.