the ramble

Can everyone please stop trying to compare a rock to a feather?

Today on the radio, my favorite current show hosts were discussing a theory. A theory put forth by a friend of one of the hosts. A theory that goes something like this:

Imagine you’re a taco shop owner. You love tacos. And so you own a taco shop. Sometimes, though, you would like some pizza. Tasty, tasty pizza. You ask the taco shop staff to make you a pizza and they tell your crazy ass to go to the pizza shop. So, you do and you eat some pizza.

The next thing out of their mouths was: so, are you cheating on the taco shop?

The whole idea being that if someone wants something else from their relationship, they can go somewhere else.

You gotta love how some skeezy, cheating guy thought this was an excellent argument for doing whatever he likes to whomever he likes. When in reality, you can’t compare things that are comparable.

As an example, let’s review another scenario:

Let’s say that you’re still a taco shop owner. And you own the taco shop for four years. And then you decide that, as an entrepreneur, you are ready to move on to a new venture. So you sell the taco shop. And you buy the pizza shop.

Okay, now instead of comparing this to a relationship between a man and a woman, let’s now compare it just as arbitrarily to the relationship between a father and a child. Does this pizza shop analogy make anyone feel better about fathers who abandon their children?

No, it doesn’t. The reason being the two scenarios are not even sort of kind of related. You can’t compare people with feelings and hopes and morality to inanimate objects or ideas. It just doesn’t work.

What is wrong with people?