Every time I go to the park, I’m able to knock balls right out the park with my favorite bat. Am I more likely to get a career in major league baseball or arrested for animal cruelty?
Your argument is on par with arguing that because you saw an article about people playing base that you think we should arrest everyone in the stadium for animal cruelty.
People also understand degrees of meaning and hyperbole. The fact that you seem to think that my response was a comeback shows exactly why you are struggling with this entire argument.
Every time I go to the park, I’m able to knock balls right out the park with my favorite bat. Am I more likely to get a career in major league baseball or arrested for animal cruelty?
Your argument is on par with arguing that because you saw an article about people playing base that you think we should arrest everyone in the stadium for animal cruelty.
There’s a saying in German: “Nicht alles was hinkt ist ein Vergleich”.
Roughly translated: “Not everything which is flawed is an analogy.”
People do say “I’m going to do the same” when doing something that has the same kind of outcome without being an identical copy of an action.
People do not use a bat (animal) as a replacement for a bat (sports equipment) because usually people understand the concept of homonyms.
That’s really not the comeback that you think it is.
People also understand degrees of meaning and hyperbole. The fact that you seem to think that my response was a comeback shows exactly why you are struggling with this entire argument.
So your point was that your argument was just hyperbole and thus doesn’t make sense?
Ok, we can go with that.