Heidegger appears to argue that the Holocaust and mechanized agriculture are on the same moral plane.

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Heidegger believed that both the Holocaust and mechanized agriculture were examples of modern technology's dangerous tendency to reduce beings to mere resources or instruments, and therefore both represented a dangerous threat to human values and ethics. He argued that modern technology, in general, was a serious threat to humanity's relationship with the natural world and our sense of authenticity as beings-in-the-world, and that the rise of industrialized agriculture and the engineering of death camps were just two examples of this larger problem.

Heidegger Appears to Argue That the Holocaust and Mechanized Agriculture