But the analogy on which the argument rests is actually its greatest weakness: all it takes to expose its fallacies is a change of metaphor. What if, for instance, the human predicament were to be represented by a metaphor taken from an actual historical circumstance involving lifeboats: the Titanic, where, by common consent, women and children boarded the lifeboats first, rather than the strong and wealthy?
This is the essential difference, the deep cultural dissonance between polytheistic and monotheistic cultures.
