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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 0 points 13 hours 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.