You’re not supposed to zero in on the ways in which an analogy doesn’t apply. You’re simply supposed to read the analogy in order to see what it’s attempting to _highlight_ about the scenario.

This is a common pet peeve of mine, people not understanding how analogies are supposed to work and getting distracted by the differences. They’re supposed to work like a light filter placed over a lens, something will be highlighted and focus on that, don’t focus on the fact that “but all the colours are different now!”, the only purpose of using the light filter was to highlight a specific part of the image, the fact that it also coloured everything wrong temporarily is supposed to be ignored.

You know, just to use an analogy to explain analogies. Gotta be as meta as possible.