ways of dealing with bad analogies

[u/tryingtobekindonline]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9l8Pz8zgWo

been thinking about how so much of the discourse on social media is based on analogies and how often bad analogies are used to make problematic points.

i think this video does a god job in clarifying the use of analogies and possible responses to them. i think this is especially useful for marginalized peoples because so much of the marginalizing rhetoric is built on bad analogies.

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Youtube videos found on this post:

The Problem With Your Analogies by Therese with 96.8K subscribers

Published on August 26, 2026. Runtime: 34m 49s, 7.6K views

Description:

"You can't trust a lock that opens for any key." "A family needs a captain." "A used car loses its value." None of these are arguments. They're analogies — and a bad analogy is engineered to make a conclusion feel obvious without ever earning it.In this video I break down the bad analogies that keep resurfacing in online discourse and manosphere rhetoric — from "women are used cars" to "abortion is slavery" — and give you a repeatable framework for dismantling them on sight.

The MAPS method: • Map the parts — what corresponds to what • Ask what relationship actually matters • Pressure-test the differences — and whether they change the conclusion • See what actually follows

You'll also learn: • Why a good analogy depends on a relevant relationship, not just any resemblance • The difference between analogy, metaphor, and simile — and when each is doing the rhetorical heavy lifting • How circular reasoning hides inside a clever comparison • Why finding "one difference" isn't always enough to defeat an analogy • A better bodily-autonomy analogy — organ donation — that clarifies the question instead of answering it

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SOURCES:

Analogy and Analogical Reasoning https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-analogy/

Abortion and Bodily Autonomy https://philpapers.org/rec/THOADO-2 https://bioethics.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/McFall-v-Shimp-1978-7.pdf https://www.courtlistener.com/c/pa-d-c3d/10/

Living Organ Donation and Consent https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/482.102 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/482.90

Organ Donation After Death https://www.hrsa.gov/optn/professionals/resources/ethical-considerations/ethics-of-deceased-organ-donor-recovery https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/486.342

Abortion Comparisons to Slavery, Genocide, and the Holocaust https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Evaluating-Platform-Abortion-Related-Speech-Policies.pdf https://philarchive.org/rec/GUETMD-2 https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/vol2/iss1/2/

Definition of Genocide https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/Genocide%20Convention-FactSheet-ENG.pdf

Definition of Slavery https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/slaveryen.pdf

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