It shows me that the person is quite ignorant on three things:

• on the very material they are comparing against;
• on the history to pull from other things to compare against;
• on recognizing that we are talking about actual human beings, their problems and plighs, instead of some Hollywood movie film.

I do like the exploratory part of fiction, like "what if X was real" and stretch it as far as it goes. But no, sometimes, we can use parable as a way to understand a little better facets of things, but not it as a whole. That's where I think people miss the forest for their Voldemort shaped trees.