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Re:Intellectual Loneliness by filoleg on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:08AM (#29757649)
Bad analogy. The entire premise of that hypothetical situation with trying drugs is that the potential risk of trying the bad ones is high (potentially your health or life).

In contrast, what’s the price of reading a book and realizing it is awful? Literally nothing except the time you spent reading it. Hardly life-ruining.

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Re:Intellectual Loneliness by rTX5CMRXIfFG on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:30AM (#29757769)
If your problem is just the metaphor, just replace it with someone's momma's cooking that everyone raves about. You can taste a bit of it and you don't have to eat the whole thing, neither do you have to try it. The point stands. And honestly the concern is rather petty.
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Re:Intellectual Loneliness by dudeman13 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @11:47AM (#29760119)
It's seriously annoying how people get pedantic with metaphors.

It's a damn metaphor - if we wanted to be precise we'd roll with the whole damn explanation without metaphors.

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