who is the second most evil person in history to you?
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Without reading the rest of the comments or focusing too much on the first one either, I would have to say the second most evil person in recent history would have to be Adolf Hitler. The first one obviously being Josef Stalin. I'm just defining "evil" as "responsible for the death of people", rather than some other moral value, which means Stalin wins hands down.
Hm, I don't think evil is measurable enough for me to make an all-star evil douchebag line-up.
Between Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Kim Jong-il, Mao, Joseph Frietzl, The Wests, etc, you could be here for a long, long time, and that's just people from the last century and a bit.
Between Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Kim Jong-il, Mao, Joseph Frietzl, The Wests, etc, you could be here for a long, long time, and that's just people from the last century and a bit.
He also created cerebral angiography [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_angiography], which I'd say is a pretty good thing.CloggedDonkey said:
I think this is more a case of something that 'seemed like a good idea at the time', but nowadays, with other treatments (that don't involve cutting people's brains out), has no reason to be used.
Now, if you want a real evil person, check out this guy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Freeman_%28neurologist%29]
He performed lobotomies 'mostly based on scanty and flimsy evidence for its scientific basis'.
With an ice pick. Without wearing gloves. In the back of a van called 'lobotomobile'.
No, I'm not kidding.
that is more evil. and am I the only one who thinks that the "Lobotomobile" was probably a peto-van.Ren3004 said:
Hitler, evilest in history? I think you are giving him too much credit. Even more evil in the 20th century would be hard to pull off against people like Stalin or Mengele.
But good and evil are just relative terms, really. Someone's villain might be somebody else hero, it depends on the point of view and whoever gets to write history in the end.
But good and evil are just relative terms, really. Someone's villain might be somebody else hero, it depends on the point of view and whoever gets to write history in the end.
George Dubya Bush
He invades Iraq-which had NOTHING to do with 9-11 only so he can finish what his daddy tried to do during his term in office and cuz of him we're basically in Vietnam-the sequel. When he plunders our economy back into the red. Def an evil evil man.
He invades Iraq-which had NOTHING to do with 9-11 only so he can finish what his daddy tried to do during his term in office and cuz of him we're basically in Vietnam-the sequel. When he plunders our economy back into the red. Def an evil evil man.
Actually, I'd list Hitler as the second most evil person. Stalin was much worse. He killed more people than Hitler and they were his *own* people. Killing those who are different is easy, because it's a part of human nature to fear that which is different, but to be able to kill your own people takes a kind of cold, dispassionate evil beyond most men. And lest we forget, Hitler believed he was building a better world and while that may not excuse him of his actions, Stalin's objectives were purely self-centered and therefore rank worse on the evil scale.
Hitler's fourth on my personal list, behind:
1) Stalin. Hitler at least killed his victims quickly. Millions of dead Ukrainians slowly starved to death.
2) Mao. Speaking of people who caused famines with stupid Communist ideas.
3) Paul of Tarsus. Every act of religious intolerance of the last two thousand years happened ultimately because of the apostle Paul's belief that Christianity should be a crusading religion to carry the message of Jesus to everyone whether they liked it or not and cemented my belief that the Abrahamic God is of Lawful Evil alignment.
4) Hitler.
1) Stalin. Hitler at least killed his victims quickly. Millions of dead Ukrainians slowly starved to death.
2) Mao. Speaking of people who caused famines with stupid Communist ideas.
3) Paul of Tarsus. Every act of religious intolerance of the last two thousand years happened ultimately because of the apostle Paul's belief that Christianity should be a crusading religion to carry the message of Jesus to everyone whether they liked it or not and cemented my belief that the Abrahamic God is of Lawful Evil alignment.
4) Hitler.
Maybe Vlad the Impaler. I think the Roman emperor Nero would take the number one spot on my list, he would light his garden at night by nailing people to crosses (mostly Christians, but some political enemies.) and fucking light them on fire, among other evil things. Hitler in my opinion really kind of pales in comparison to other figures in history, he is just more recent.
Uwe Boll, uses tax loopholes and beats up his critics (if I get the story stright) and that's just downright evil
hitler killed 12millCloggedDonkey said:
the erm... two chinesse guys killed alomst a billion if you add them i think...
either way hilter is 3rd out of murdering leaders not 1st
just for arguments sake
vanilla ice....
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