Q&A: It Is Permissible to Compare to the Holocaust
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It Is Permissible to Compare to the Holocaust
Question
After we saw the starved hostages returning, people say that “you can’t compare it to the Holocaust.” Do you understand or agree with this “you can’t”? Why not compare one evil to another evil? To me it very much brings to mind elements of the Holocaust.
Answer
A discussion where both sides are overwhelmingly a mix of semantics and emotion. Clearly, there are similar aspects, and there are aspects that are not.