is crime really considered a disease?
or that made up for this movie?
shareJust made up for this movie. There isn't much crime in America nowadays
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/ˈmɛtəfə,ˈmɛtəfɔː/
noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
"when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic metaphor"
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a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.
"the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering"
To be fair, during The 80s, "Crime is 20th Century America's version of The Black Plague" was a line peddled by both The Regan Administration and Hollywood. Many Americans in turn bought into it
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