This is a super common argument strategy "on the internet" (but also at work with people who are too annoying for their own good, including myself). Just stripping away context until suddenly the thing you're saying is fine. People throwing out metaphors and similes as if shuffling around numbers on a hard drive and throwing pieces of metal and paper into a jar are the same thing.
And nobody is really immune to this line of thinking! There are people who scoff at "mixing cash into the jar is not illegal" but will state that "math can't be made illegal" or "you can't copyright numbers". I'm definitely not immune to it.
And nobody is really immune to this line of thinking! There are people who scoff at "mixing cash into the jar is not illegal" but will state that "math can't be made illegal" or "you can't copyright numbers". I'm definitely not immune to it.