GA lawmaker equates women with cows and pigs

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I don't want to be Analogy Police (YES I DO), but Nathan is right.  This is an analogy.  An analogy compares something that's substantively alike in two otherwise unalike things.  An analogy does not "equate," or imply that the two compared things are substantively alike in all ways.  If it did, it wouldn't be an analogy.

ANALOGY POLICE OUT, BROSEPHS.

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That's not even the big problem here, Nathan.  There's nothing offensive in "comparing" things, because comparing them doesn't equate them!  It's meant to show some significant similarity.  It's not meant to equate the two things in ways besides that similarity.  This whole "you can't compare x to y!" thing totally misunderstands the point of analogies.

This is especially bad when someone uses a reductio ad absurdum argument -- which "reduces an argument to the absurd" by showing how that argument, applied consistently, would require you to accept something absurd/terrible.  I've seen people on the Atlas use a reductio ad absurdum to show how an argument to support thing A would require someone to accept awful thing B, and then someone shoots back, "but you can't compare A and B!  B is terrible!"  No duh.  That's the idea.

The phrase "you can't compare __ and __" needs to die, because you can always compare two things.  The question is whether the comparison is accurate and meaningful.

Sorry, rant over.  It's just tough to see this behavior on a forum where we all should know better.

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I am astounded as to how stupid some militant pro-choice Americans are.   

Haha, are you suggesting this behavior of misunderstanding analogies is somehow specific to pro-choice Americans?  If not, what is the point of phrasing your sentence that way?