JPod, we could wallow in this analogy anguish forever but, for what it’s worth (I note pedantically), Hitler was not a vegetarian (that’s a myth), but if he had been, I can’t see much of a problem with the example you cite. In fact people poking fun at vegetarians often use the Fuhrer’s (supposed) vegetarianism in just this way. Where Singer/Hitler falls apart as a comparison with Beria/More is that vegetarianism is a harmless (if odd) characteristic to share (had the two men actually done so) and there’s a limit to the conclusions that you can draw from the fact that both of them supposedly would have turned down a lamb chop.

Choosing to interrogate prisoners at home is, by contrast, a rather more sinister, and unusual, pastime to have in common, and, if only as a historical curiosity, it’s at least noteworthy that both Beria and More went in for it. But no, f course that fact alone doesn’t make More a Beria. He was very far from being that.