No it wasn’t absolutely necessary. I was deliberately being a bit cliche. Normally I avoid cliches, but it felt right rhetorically here. I don’t know if it really was.
Had I been extra-concerned about avoiding confusion, I would have also pointed out the difference between attempting to invoke the Nazis to prove a general rule, and invoking the Nazis as a counter-example, and that I was doing the latter here. I failed to do that. Oh well.
No it wasn’t absolutely necessary. I was deliberately being a bit cliche. Normally I avoid cliches, but it felt right rhetorically here. I don’t know if it really was.
Had I been extra-concerned about avoiding confusion, I would have also pointed out the difference between attempting to invoke the Nazis to prove a general rule, and invoking the Nazis as a counter-example, and that I was doing the latter here. I failed to do that. Oh well.