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So... should we ban private backyard pools that don't have lifeguards? Lots of kids down in those.



Can I buy an extended magazine for my private, backyard pool? Or should we just admit this metaphor lost all meaning some time ago?

Like, really, that’s what you’ve got? But what about backyard pools? That’s your humdinger, parliamentary argument for why inaction is better when confronted with a logical comparison? To extrapolate the comparison further and a-ha! the degenerate cases like you’re arguing philosophy in Plato’s company?

What is it about topics like these that make a forum of otherwise intelligent people argue like they’re practicing bird law? In any other context someone making the point you’re making would be ridiculed for taking the argument here.


Some cities won't grant a permit unless the pool is fenced because of the drowning risk to small children.




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