[circlecity]

"Yes you did as you have compared them and classified them both under crimes. Should you choose ‘violent crimes’ as the descriptor, then it would not have been a statement equating the two."

No he didn't. To equate is to reqard two or more things as equivilent. Merely pointing out that each of two things may share a single characteristic is not to assert they are equivilent. If I point out that my shoe is white and that a star is white I am not saying that shoe is equivilent that star.

[John O]

I play basketball
Michael Jordan (of the Chicago Bulls) plays basketball

Am I “equal” to Michael Jordan? I think not. (for one thing I’m better looking. lol )