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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (142171)1/28/2002 3:03:38 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1578927
 
If the analogy is between controling guns and cureing cancer then guns are the cancer in the analogy.

No.........the analogy is not between the two subjects but between the two predicates.

And the two predicates relate directly to the two subjects. The whole analogy assumes that much greater level of control of guns is both possible in America, and desireable, apparently because it assumes that the guns themselves are bad in a way similar to how cancer is bad.

One last time and then I give up.........my original analogy was that I believe its as difficult to cure cancer as it is to control the proliferation guns [you had felt that it would pretty difficult to control the proliferation of guns in the US], nonetheless we do not give on the goal to find a cure for cancer so why should we give up on the goal to control guns? If you still don't understand the analogy, we'll have to give up on this issue.

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