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How is this analogy even supposed to work?

When you eat too much, you can choose to eat less. When your critical organ is about to stop functioning, what can you even do? Use that organ less?

Either I am missing something major in that analogy, or it is just bad.




I think you're missing the point of the analogy; it's not about assigning culpability for health problems, it's about illustrating the kind of comment that centers proximate causes when the surrounding discussion is about root causes.




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