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An analogy or a fallacy

Fake friends are just like a newtons cradle: whenever your not facing them, they'll stab you in the back.
asked on Monday, Dec 28, 2015 04:01:07 AM by Math

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Fake friends don't always stab you in the back so I'm assuming you're using a biased sample to make the conclusion that they would. As far as the analogy, that's a big stretch from a ball hitting another ball as being the same as a fake friend turning on you. I'm sure if my imagination stretches with some help I might see the correlation, right now I'm having trouble because Newtowns cradle seems merely a representation of transferring energy from an object to others via momentum., not sure how that's stabbing in the back.
answered on Thursday, Jan 21, 2016 05:03:44 PM by Math

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