[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

monster and animal are generic terms

Hitler is too though now, have you never heard anyone refer to someone as a Little Hitler....not actually properly comparing them to Hitler but just to mean he's a bit Power mad?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Hitler is too though now, have you never heard anyone refer to someone as a Little Hitler....not actually properly comparing them to Hitler but just to mean he's a bit Power mad?

Not in the instance of this thread

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Not in the instance of this thread

But the thread topic - which you wrote yourself - specifies "comparing" and not "equating". And so we come back to my suggestion from earlier; that some people are confused, and don't realise that there is a (significant) difference between these two terms.

It's a common mistake of course. The vast majority of the time when people say "Oh no, you can't compare X to Y!" or "X and Y just do not compare!" they do in fact mean "equate". You can compare anything to anything else. Such is the nature of comparison.