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by madez 3190 days ago
This analogy is not good, because for a vegetarian there are other easy-obtainable things to eat. On the other side, in the case of handheld portals into the digital world, we do not have easy-obtainable alternatives.

Besides this weakness, the analogy relies on fanatism. One can easily become nearly vegan and have virtually all of the benefits while not needing to be totalitarian nor fanatic.