Originally posted by Yeager
what kind of person compares South Korea to Iran...Libya....North Korea......
Someone that actually knows the meaning of the words "compare" and "contrast".
Compare is finding similarities.
Contrast is finding differences.
The question is whether or not the similarites are applicable to the arguement at hand.
Elvis: SK is comparable to Iran.
Chaucer: How so?
Elvis: The land masses of both nation states are comprised of atoms.
Chaucer: WTF??
Hence,
Funked: How can you compare a prosperous peaceful democracy like ROK to a fanatical muslim theocracy that sponsors global terror?
Thrawn: Iran and SK are the same in that they both persued the creation of nuclear material that they agreed not in the non-proliferation treaty.
Funked: And that's where the comparison ends...
Thrawn: Indeed,... (really they could be compared alot of other ways but not for the purposes of the arguement at hand, at least not im my opinoin.)
That is how I understood the exchange (other points being irrelevant to this exercise).
One more.
Elvis: Bush is comparable to Hitler.
Chaucer: How so?
Elvis: They are both Homospiens of the male gender.
Chaucer: I see, but they can also be contrasted.
Elvis: How so?
Chaucer: Hilter has a mustache, where Bush does not.
Elvis: Quite right.
