> Go make a table with 4 legs and also every leg has 4 legs.

If you have to make up nonsensical examples to prove your point, then you probably don't have a point.

> You were a kid in shop class. Now you want your kids to take shop class. Because, recursion.

That's not recursion.

The first paragraph was more of a parody of your just-so argument than point per se; but the second paragraph is literally recursion.

How is it not recursion?

  def spawn():
    take_shop_class()
    return spawn()