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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Why is it awful? Pretty nicely makes the point in my books

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Is it likely that someone would not want to be a banker in their 20s and change their mind in their 30s?

    I didn't want kids in my 20s. Got them in my late 30s. Best decision ever. Your mileage may vary.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Is it likely that someone would not want to be a banker in their 20s and change their mind in their 30s

    Yes, obviously. Some people want to be bankers, some don't, and that's OK. The only weird thing is when bankers say that everyone will want to be a banker one day, and even if you don't like it, you have to anyway, you will have no choice but to love it later.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Except both their parents were 'bankers'. As were yours and mine. And our all grandparents. Indeed, every single predecessor, ever.

    That's where it falls down, regardless of how one might feel about parenthood. It's just not a very good analogy.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    This is absolutely not relevant in context of this analogy.

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    Analogue, you see, isn't supposed to be 1-1 recreation of the thing we're talking about. It's an instrument that suppose to focus on one aspect of the phenomenon, exaggerate it, divorce it from the original connotations so it's easier to talk about the aspect itself, without being emotionally attached to the whole picture. "But in this other aspect it's not like the original" therefore isn't a rebuttal of the argument. It's like saying that an architectural model of the center for kids that can't read good is stupid because it's too small and kids can't actually enter the building.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    We are not genetically wired to be bankers. Though I'm not sure there is anything equivalent to compare properly.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Some people aren't "genetically wired" to make kids either. Just like you don't have this strong urge to start dishing out credits and tie pens to the desks with curly wires, I don't have this genetic urge to make kids, and it's exactly as weird to me when someone says to me that I'll love it when I get them or whatever

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It doesn’t make the point to the other person so it’s not a good comeback

    That’s the entire point, is to demonstrate to them their own fallacious reasoning yet all you’ve done is come across like a dumb dumb that thinks having kids is somehow equivalent to becoming a banker

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