• blarghly@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    The fact that you used the term we usually use to describe quitting alcohol and cigarettes is probably a good sign that they should be banned.

    • Nate Cox@programming.dev
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      19 minutes ago

      Wat? It’s called a colloquialism. It’s a way to describe something I know you know without needing to spell it out.

      You’re basically asserting that anything described using an analogy must inherit all the traits of anything else that analogy is used for, which is just silly. It’s a classic composition/division fallacy.