>>15463052Point out how sock analogy is straw man, and I will be more than happy to amend it. I kept the analogy as neutral as possible. The point that was being made was that one method was simply faster and took less effort than the other. The other mean didn't really take "skill" to do, it was simply more tedious and took longer to do. The end result for both methods were the exact same, there was nothing that set them apart from one another.
My analogy was simply pointing out that, from that regard, it's completely reasonable for someone to want to just use the more convenient means to get the same result than the more tedious ones. It was also meant to point out that there's nothing really to take pride in doing it the more tedious way. It took no skill, it only used up more of your time and labor that you could have spent elsewhere.
I feel that a lot of people who are picking at my analogy just aren't realizing what it's really supposed to represent. Socks sound silly, but I picked it because it's neutral. There's nothing wrong with someone who using a washing machine. There's nothing wrong with someone who uses a washboard. They just have their own methods of doing it. Most analogies gear a negative connotation on one side, while my analogy only lays out the situation as it is:
Person A uses a faster method than person B
Person B uses a slower and more laboring method than person A
Person A and B both achieve the same results.
That's all it comes down to, I just fleshed it out more. Are you happy now that it doesn't mention socks anymore? Or are you going to pick at me using letters or not going more into depth about the feeling of pride and accomplishment that comes with person B? (Which was the purpose of the socks in the first place, by the way.)
