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4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
1st Apr, 2019 07:13:30 PM
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
phalanx
Since: Jun, 2012
1st Apr, 2019 07:45:38 PM
out-of-universe Analogy Backfire
Miss_Desperado
Since: Sep, 2016
2nd Apr, 2019 12:35:59 PM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
2nd Apr, 2019 03:21:25 PM
I'd go with Broken Aesop for the idea, but worth noting that your specific example isn't broken: drugs do often have desirable effects along with the deleterious ones (hence why people take them in the first place), addictions can't be cured (only reduced with time and abstinence), and the withdraw from many drugs can kill a heavy user who goes cold-turkey.
Is there an equivalent of Broken Aesop, but for metaphores? Like, in a show where vampirism is supposed to be analogous to drug addiction, but vampires can't be cured, need to drink blood or they'll die, have super strength, etc?