I agree, you and I are not “just like Hitler”. Rather, we are human beings, just like he was.
Notice that the Metz comparison was about humans too.
This is a deepity. It is trivially true that anything that I can do and anything Hitler could do are things done by humans. It’s impossible for a human to do a thing that can’t be done by a human.
But if you want this comparison to be meaningful, it isn’t. If Hitler is a monster, that just means that some human beings are monsters and others aren’t—it doesn’t disprove that Hitler is a monster.
The human condition is what contains the full scope of good and evil, on which most of us like to think we lean towards the former.
It is literally true that zero murders can be put in the same scope as lots of murders. But that’s a misleading framing.
Notice that the Metz comparison was about humans too.
This is a deepity. It is trivially true that anything that I can do and anything Hitler could do are things done by humans. It’s impossible for a human to do a thing that can’t be done by a human.
But if you want this comparison to be meaningful, it isn’t. If Hitler is a monster, that just means that some human beings are monsters and others aren’t—it doesn’t disprove that Hitler is a monster.
It is literally true that zero murders can be put in the same scope as lots of murders. But that’s a misleading framing.