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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8638165" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Okay. So if you actually want to converse with me in the future, I will explain.First- I tend to not respond to people who simply want to argue. Some people enjoy that, I don't. Pretty simple. There are many people here who like to argue. I suggest replying to them. Second- When it comes to analogies and metaphors, it's pretty simple. I'll give you an example.Xeno: Money is the engine of litigation.Achilles: What? Money isn't an engine! My god, man, money is completely different than engines! Engines convert power into motion, whereas money, assuming you're talking about fiat currency, is only a medium of exchange issued by the government without any commodity behind it. Here, allow me to further illustrate my knowledge of these concepts ....Xeno: You must be fun at cocktail parties ...If you still don't get it after that example, and the prior quote, I will make it explicitly clear- no analogy or metaphor is perfect. None of them is even close. The reason is pretty simple- if the match was perfect, then it wouldn't be an analogy or a metaphor. Therefore, it is always a trivial issue to argue with someone by attacking the fit of an analogy, and that never accomplishes anything. When someone is offering an analogy or metaphor, they are attempting to communicate something about the underlying issue; while you don't have to agree with the underlying idea of what they are communicating, it s better to at least understand it rather than attack the analogy, because, again, that never accomplishes anything.Third- If you want to understand a point I am making, you can always ask. I tend to answer questions.Good? Good! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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