We’ve all encountered that argument, the one that is contentious and unmoving, ultimately resulting in one side uttering the phrase, “It’s apples and oranges.”
The phrase is a way to break the logjam of an argument that is more based on perspective and opinion than fact and has no hard, or even empirical, evidence to prove either side right or wrong. It’s a way of throwing up your arms and agreeing to disagree because you just cannot “compare apples to oranges.” They are simply two different things. However…