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by dekhn 1023 days ago
That's a logical fallacy. The argument you are responding to is not logical, but rhetorical (argument by analogy, based on the premise that analogous systems behave in similar ways). Logical fallacies don't apply to rhetorical arguments in a logical way.

We can all do better than pedantically pointing out logical fallacies, as no argument outside of mathematics is completely logical.