Okay but the point is that all these analogies claim to apply to all possibilities, and in fact this specific person has claimed that his analogy is a general definition of monads and so applies to all monads.

> This makes the child feel good because they were right about something and also learned something and you feel good because you helped them learn.

I'm not going to treat them like a child just to give them the impression that they contributed. They said something that I think is inadequate, so I told them that.