wedrifid comments on The Halo Effect - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 13 August 2012 06:32:09PM *  1 point [-]

While you are understandably upset, please NEVER compare something to the actions of Hitler/Nazis.

I endorse comparisons of Genghis Khan and Hitler whenever the topic happens to come up in conversation among people who aren't oversensitive. Comparing various leaders on the impressiveness of their achievement or the magnitude of their moral transgressions is entertaining. Also acceptable is speculating about what would in a fight between, say, a tiger and a bear. Or 3 wolves vs a bear. Or a Hippopotamus vs a tiger, three wolves and a bear.