No, as I said (and you agreed), it does make sense to go beyond the ????, although it’s “safer” to stay within it. The bottom line of where we disagree, possibly, is that I hold that at at the end of the day, despite the fact that kal vachomer seems to simply be a logical device, it’s much more than that; it’s a means of HKB”H teaching us halachos, much as the other twelve middos are. There is logic to it, but it’s not iron clad in that way, and the degree of logical proof doesn’t have to be consistent.
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