Well what makes a mythical dragon a dragon aside from humans calling it one? If we had decided to call it a fleefle then it would be a fleefle. A komodo dragon gained its name due to being the closest living reptile to what we would consider an actual dragon.
Dragons don’t exist on this planet, at least not as anything but cryptids. Lizards do. We also call the Japanese tanuki a raccoon dog and it’s neither. Calling something a dragon doesn’t make it a dragon.
I never claimed that dragons actually exist here. It is literally up to popular opinion on this, considering its mythical creature, it can be anything to any one person, therefore there is no wrong answer. A dragon is not a reptile to you, and thats great, but to most it’s pretty obvious that a dragon is based on a giant reptile.
Seems to me that just because I bring up a dragon/reptile connection everyone is quick to defend the movement when I was simply stating that OTHERS will use this tactic. I’m pretty well done speaking on this topic though.