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When I hear sports discussions they don't spend a lot of time reminding us that everything is subject to the same gravity. If some jackasses did it would become a thought terminating cliché, and eventually we would be breaking out of it, but it would be tainting the direction of each discussion from the point where it was invoked.

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Interestingly, I find myself subject to the opposite quite often. It's a common cliché in the US to describe superlative athletic ability as "defying gravity." Would you consider that a thought-terminating cliché?

I'm happy to continue to discuss this with you, but I would ask that you please refrain from name calling.

I think this analogy doesn't quite hold, as you don't have athletes saying "I can't throw as far as you because of gravity", whereas you really do have people making ridiculous claims when it comes to weight loss.

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