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“Wearing a seatbelt is the same as walking around with a device that can near instantly kill people.” Is something said by someone living in a dystopia.

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It was a preparedness analogy which seems to have gone over your head.

Is something said by someone living in a dystopia.

You’ve had a variation on this in just about every response. It’s getting very old. We get it, US bad.

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Was my statement wrong in any way?

If it’s getting old stop trying to argue against it by saying the dystopian attitude is necessary.

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Thinking that it is better to cause harm o an attacker rather than permitting the attacker to harm oneself is not a dystopian attitude.

A place in which it is possible that someone might try to hurt you isn’t a dystopia. It’s a natural part of reality.

A place in which no aggression exists is, however, a utopia.

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Was my statement wrong in any way?

Do you know how analogies work? Of course the two things I compared are different.

It’s like if I said “a fish swimming is like a bird flying” and you coming along and saying “omg swimming and flying are the same now???/”

I even spelled it out - it’s about preparedness.

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