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> They work terribly for persuasion.

I just experienced this in a conversation. An analogy offers an opportunity to engage with the straw man and miss the forest for the trees.

Every analogy, by design, has both similarities and differences. The intention is to focus on the similarities, and ignore the differences.

If I say, your face is like the moon, I mean it is bright, not that it is a million miles away.