In your opinion, who is/was the greatest human being of all time?
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George W. Bush
Because no man in history has been blamed for more things than Dubya. Seriously. He's like the cornerstone of all finger pointing. You could play a modified game of the Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon, using Bush and blame, and make any connection in 6 moves or less.
Because no man in history has been blamed for more things than Dubya. Seriously. He's like the cornerstone of all finger pointing. You could play a modified game of the Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon, using Bush and blame, and make any connection in 6 moves or less.
Somebody had to say Chuck Norris... He isn't that great. I wouldn't say Bruce Campbell, only because he is an actor. If we can say fictional characters though, Evil Dead's Ash is the fucking man.
I don't think you can honestly include anyone whose contributions were strictly evolutionary. The discovery of fire or weaponry or really any scientific principle is only a matter of time. The discoverer is almost irrelevant; if not him/her, then it would have been someone else. You could even categorize most of the intellectuals under this heading.
Likewise, anyone who became "great" by following the natural human instinct to acquire wealth, security, and dominance over his fellow man really shouldn't qualify either. I just don't see it as terribly impressive, being enslaved to your primitive, genetically-determined impulses. You conquered an entire continent? Good for you... tool.
So I'm going with a humanitarian - someone who bettered the world for a large number of people with no substantial material gain to show for his or her efforts. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about such people to offer up any nominations.
But hey, my criteria... slick, huh?
Likewise, anyone who became "great" by following the natural human instinct to acquire wealth, security, and dominance over his fellow man really shouldn't qualify either. I just don't see it as terribly impressive, being enslaved to your primitive, genetically-determined impulses. You conquered an entire continent? Good for you... tool.
So I'm going with a humanitarian - someone who bettered the world for a large number of people with no substantial material gain to show for his or her efforts. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about such people to offer up any nominations.
But hey, my criteria... slick, huh?
Regardless of whether or not he did everything written down, his influence stemming from people believing he did has been unspeakably profound. This fact is instructive in a couple ways: that an individual person is, in reality, relatively unimportant; rather it is the wider structure of societies and civilizations that gives them that importance, and secondly it illustrates the Thomas theorem, "if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences."Assassin Xaero said:
And the consequences of Jesus have been very real, in both exceptionally positive and extremely negative ways. (However, perhaps that doesn't qualify him as the "greatest human being"; perhaps the most important, but that would completely ignore the rest of the world.)
I'd have to go for the Old Spice guy, he always makes me laugh with his antics.
.. Everyone else had something more than obviously wrong with them, or their actions.