[geocrasher]

Since you added context to my comment that I didn't ask for, I'm going to add some to yours that you didn't ask for.

Because of an unknown metabolic disorder, I watched my wife starve to death. She literally died from malnutrition. It was the most awful ugly thing I've ever seen.

You have no idea what you're talking about or who you're talking to.

[mdp2021]

Sorry, but I suppose there is an ugly thing I should add, geocrasher.

It remains very unfortunate that I came to pick a simile about hunger not knowing about your past - to signify in perching_aix's case that abstincence better be voluntary and in yours that loss of something achieved remains a bad thing.

The ugly thing: about "having no idea what I'm talking about",

we are both in this world together - and the rest. We all have seen hell and misery, in the different forms that chance and the evolution of facts inflicted us. I felt immediate participation to your story. Do not suppose, for good or bad, that you are an exception.

We all have seen and lived the most horrible things.

[mdp2021]

I am terribly sorry to hear that, geocrasher.

Of course the simile I found to try and show that "look, this branch does not seem appropriate for the context" was random. I thought of a few, in time constraints, and the one that looked the best of the bunch happened to be the one of "starvation". It could have anything - surely you understand.

> You have no idea what you're talking about or who you're talking to

But I was talking of the matter in context, and the simile, as said, was logic, not comparative.