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> That's like saying a tennis ball and a planet are the same because they're both round. What is this random analogy and what does it have to do with mine? >
by powertower 12y ago
> That's like saying a tennis ball and a planet are the same because they're both round.
What is this random analogy and what does it have to do with mine?
> Scale, you're missing the scale of it.
The number of tennis balls that would fit in the volume of this planet has 25 digits in it.
So no, it's not even close to the scale of anything. And what does being round have to do with it?
I can't even figure out what your argument is.
- sweettea 12y agoYou're saying families are like nations, in that $arbitraryPerson can't just "come into your family/nation and get all the benefits and rights and privileges as your born children/citizens get". They're saying that the difference in scale makes the comparison invalid; a nation is, say, 8 orders of magnitude larger than a family, and, similarly, the earth is 25 orders of magnitude larger than a tennis ball. For the same reason that comparing the earth and tennis balls doesn't work because of scale, comparing a nation and families doesn't work because of scale.
- powertower 12y agoIf a family of 10 is increased by 1 member each year, that is an increase of 10%. You can apply a 10% increase in population each year, due to benefit seeking immigration, to a country. There is no "scale" issue here. And even if there was, the reasoning that followed can stand on its own (because the analogy was directed on the OP's analogy, and not on the reasoning provided).