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I get the point you’re trying to make, but we regularly actually start fires to prevent fires.
That's true. Maybe I should've picked my analogy better lol.
Big reason why analogies are fallacies: they're never a 1:1 representation of the subject and hand and usually serve to derail the conversation by making people debate the merits of the analogy.
A forest fire can’t burn the leaves you already burned a few months ago.
🤣🤣🤣 beat me to it, like almost literally verbatim what I was going to say.