An individual is not a lemming, no. But people? People are scared, stupid, lemmings who will follow the crowd, almost every time.
We’re social creatures, designed to work in groups. The downside (or upside I guess) is that people do follow the crowd.
And …. Godwin’s Law for the win.
You kept dancing around the point, but you finally committed and were able to bring up Hitler in what seems to be 4 moves during a conversation about oil.
Well done.