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> Every government will spy on their citizens to some degree, but that doesn't make them equivalent.

I only got my girlfriend a little pregnant; not like Joe over there, who got his girlfriend fully pregnant.

Yes, some things are binary and some things are not. Your example is binary. The situation we're talking about is not.

Frog in the boiling pot

Slippery slope

See I can name meaningless aphorisms too.

Not a great analogy there are governments and there are governments who gove you social credit scores and stuff.