Opinion of people who don’t understand what a hypothetical is?

[John Dule]

Not as bad as the people who don't understand how analogies work.

[John Dule]

Not as bad as the people who don't understand how analogies work.

To be fair, arguments from analogies are perhaps the weakest sort of argument, just as water vapor is the weakest form of water.

Usually when I use analogous arguments, I'm doing so to illustrate how a person's line of reasoning could be repurposed in a way they wouldn't agree with, thus demonstrating that this argument alone isn't sufficient to prove their point. However, the concept routinely escapes them. A trivial example:

Person: "You just hate AOC because you're jealous of her. She's accomplished much more than you have."
Dule: "You could say the same thing about Pol Pot. He accomplished much more than either of us ever have. Are we 'just jealous' for criticizing him?"
Person: "Are you seriously comparing Pol Pot to AOC?!?!?!"