[stale2002]

I mean, I wouldn't use analogies that were originally created to target people who disagreed with the draft.

Whether or not the analogy applies now, is irrelevant. It's history makes it a bad analogy.

It'd be like saying stuff like "it's Ok to be white". It may be a true statement, but it was used by people who were trying to make racial attacks.

[lliamander]

> I mean, I wouldn't use analogies that were originally created to target people who disagreed with the draft.

> Whether or not the analogy applies now, is irrelevant. It's history makes it a bad analogy.

I appreciate your motivation, but I just can't get behind this line of reasoning. For one thing, most people aren't aware of the history.

For another, almost every good idea has a tainted history. (e.g. the golden rule. "Eh that? That's just something that Jesus guy said, and look how many people his followers killed in the crusades, witch-hunts, etc.")

Lastly, it's just not a form of rational thinking. Obviously the connotations of our words matter, but unless we can separate the connotation from the denotation we have no hope of arriving at the truth.