On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> Mostly that was just a weird story that leaves you going "Huh?", but
> false analogy is used a lot. One of the best ones was popular some years
> back, before the Republican party descended into outright criminality.
> It goes like this: "The government is just like a family, it cannot live
> beyond its means." Many people who gave the outward appearance of
> intelligence bought into this one, but it fails at the outset. The
> government is not just like a family. In fact, one could search far and
> wide and have trouble finding two institutions more unlike than a
> government and a family. Apples and oranges are identical twins when
> placed next to governments and families. And yet many people focused on
> the second part of the statement, while ignoring the fact that the
> premise was stupendously wrong, so wrong that it should have invalidated
> anything that followed after it.
And I see "identical twins" in there, and wonder, "Monoamniotic?"
I should probably head for bed now....
Julia
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