Poll: Abraham Lincoln: the greatest human ever?
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I'm going to give my vote to greatest person in the last 100 years to Stanislav Petrov. Haven't heard of him? Wiki him, I'll wait....
Have you checked yet?...Seriously, check him out. Without Petrov waving off a supposed nuclear missle attacks as flaws in the Soviet radar system, the human population would have gone from 6B to 6M, if that. There has hardly been anyone that has impacted so many lives (or, for Butterfly theorists, lives that have impacted everyone so resoundingly) that no one knows about. I have no doubt that there are other great men in our history (and the 100 years thing lets me sidestep Jesus, just so I could give some praise to Petrov), but to prevent a nuclear missle attack against the USA goes a REALLY long way in my book.
Have you checked yet?...Seriously, check him out. Without Petrov waving off a supposed nuclear missle attacks as flaws in the Soviet radar system, the human population would have gone from 6B to 6M, if that. There has hardly been anyone that has impacted so many lives (or, for Butterfly theorists, lives that have impacted everyone so resoundingly) that no one knows about. I have no doubt that there are other great men in our history (and the 100 years thing lets me sidestep Jesus, just so I could give some praise to Petrov), but to prevent a nuclear missle attack against the USA goes a REALLY long way in my book.
Personally I think Ghandi trumps Lincoln. That and I heard that Abe had some slaves at one point.
Your post has caught my interest. TO THE INTERNET... Well... DEEPER INTO THE INTERNET!Crazed_Puppeteer said:
And yet you feel free to judge him as misguided?bushwhacker2k said:
On that note, Socrates was the greatest human being to exist.
I don't really like talking to people who only read every other word, just going to say I put maybe, and I only even put that so that I wouldn't get flamed by haters.Chefodeath said:
Didn't Ghandi sleep with his niece or something like that to practise celibacy? I am not saying he did anything but he did do that as far as I remember.danpascooch said:
I don't know, and honestly even if that's true I would still consider him better.Glademaster said:
How much harm does sleeping with your niece do when compared to the overwhelming good of promoting non violence so effectively?
Well that's fair enough if you still like him better. I was just trying to point out he is not as perfect as some people make him out to be. Yes he still did great things. Also I don't even know why I am posting in this hirrbly necroed thread.danpascooch said:
He was a good president, to be true. But as a human? Who gives a fuck? He suspended habeas corpus and jailed people who spoke out against him. If I talked about just those deeds without telling you the identity of the man who did them, you would think whoever it was was a tyrant.
Nobody's perfect, honestly, if people couldn't find anything wrong with him I would be suspicious that that historical accounts of him were whitewashed and perhaps he was NOTHING like what he is made out to be.Glademaster said:
In other words, Ghandi's flaws lend credibility to the miraculous accounts of what a good person he is.
That's why I'm suspicious of Jesus, he is described as someone with absolutely no flaws, which I refuse to believe, thus casting doubt on the entire account of him. (at least for me)
i would have to say no personally, kinda hard to trump Ghandi..... he thought liberty was priceless, but not worth destroying his fellow man for, he had the courage to stand up to oppression and lead a country to its freedom without sacrificing its character. he failed poor ghandi, but by jaysus if we all failed like ghandi did the world would be a much better place.
of corse ghandi is nothing compared to bruce cambell, but bruce is a god, so obviously not eligible for this poll
of corse ghandi is nothing compared to bruce cambell, but bruce is a god, so obviously not eligible for this poll
Albert Einstein, Kemal Atatürk, or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (although he was a kiddie fidler) come to mind.
WWWHHHHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAA!!Jafe_45 said:
*Glassy eyed*
OT: Say what you will, keeping the states united was probably the hardest thing to do in the history of this country, not just simply because it was war, but because it was against our own people. Many wars in countries, even inside of your own country, have this 'us and them' feeling. This was the historic 'us and us' battle.
[HEADING=1]Necro thread btw[/HEADING]
Besides... he was cool but Leonardo Da Vinci was the greatest human to have ever lived...
Besides... he was cool but Leonardo Da Vinci was the greatest human to have ever lived...
I know this thread is several months old, but if you're in the UK the BBC is doing a documentary on Lincoln on BBC4 11 oclock tonight. "Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?"
While Im sure the OP has finished researching him, anyone else interested might like to have a look at this. I think its a series, and another one I watched was very interesting.
While Im sure the OP has finished researching him, anyone else interested might like to have a look at this. I think its a series, and another one I watched was very interesting.