Yes I am making that comparison. It is a reducto ad absurdium argument. I skipped all the steps where I illustrate the value of copyright law and the value of music and then draw a parallel between "but I buy the CDs" with "but I don't hurt anyone".
I didn't endanger people when "pirating" Metallica's (well, ACDC and Twisted Sisters rather) CDs when i was younger (and a lot poorer, single unqualified mom in a small city and all that).
Emule and bittorent helped me get access to a culture i didn't even know existed, brought me awy from TV shows and helped me learn english and to books i now own. I'm sorry for Butcher, Feist and Sanderson early years, but i think i have the whole collection now, and i couldn't afford to buy those books anyway (i don't think i could even find them in my country)
Drunk driving just made me gain 40 minutes while probably endangering a dozen people (and i immediately stopped after the first time).
Also every time i buy storage i pay a tax to Universal and other CP owner while not having any licenced music (unless they own Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Pachelbel, and a lot of pre-63 music in general) on those storage. Also they should give 40% of that tax to the Linux foundation since packer and weird images are taking almost half my disk space?
Anyway, i know how prod works, more than half of them are parasites and don't add any value (well, not exactly, they add their daddy political connections, that's something). It does not surprise me, what is surprising to me is that this many people defend them.
One of those deprives someone of some money(maybe, if they would have bought the CD otherwise), the other has a real chance to kill or maim. You really don't do your cause any favors with the absurd arguments. As someone else brought up, the you wouldn't download a car type arguments only get you ridicule.