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0 pointsromwell4y ago0 comments

Why does it matter? You can't argue by an analogy, because first you need need to argue why running a social network with 1B+ users is the same thing as throwing a house party.

With great power comes great responsibility. You don't get to be "popular" for free.

And if you don't like it — you don't have to pay that game.

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otterley4y ago

> You can't argue by an analogy

Sure I can. I’m doing it right now. Of course, analogies are imperfect, but they make good teaching and argumentative tools.

> You don't get to be "popular" for free.

Fortunately for society, the law disagrees with you. (Also, your way has been tried in the past, and was not especially popular - to the point of revolution in certain Eastern European countries in the 1960s-1980s.)

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otterley4y ago

> You can't argue by an analogy

Sure I can. I’m doing it right now. Of course, analogies are imperfect, but they make good teaching and argumentative tools.

> You don't get to be "popular" for free.

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