Most Evil Human In History Aside From the Big Two

[KaizokuouHasu]

Jesus.

He convinced everyone else around him that his imaginary friends were real. The bastard ruined generations.

Hey look guise this guy insulted religion! That makes him so edgy and cool and not an unoriginal annoying dick in any way!

That's what I was thinking.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Oppenheimer.. Because he made the nuke...

Guy who invented the gun must be a real bastard then.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Thomas Midgley, Jr.

I don't know if he's been called out already. I didn't check every post.

He invented Tetratheyllead (TEL) and Freon, or Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC). He has been labelled as the single most harmful being to this world, having done more damage than any other organism.

TEL is an additive for fuel, which contains lead. Lead, as we all know, is very bad for both people and the environment. Most cars in the world use it meaning there is a lot of it going around. Freon is used in refrigerators to keep food cool. It has devastating effects on the ozone layers.

He eventually killed himself by accident in his sickbed.

Karma's a *****, but the little bastards inventions are still screwing us over today.

 

[maturin]

Mao Zedong.

Any specific reasons?

He killed more than Stalin and Hitler put together.

He signed fewer death warrants than Stalin's pet goldfish. There's a difference between killing people and having them die on your watch.

And it wasn't Mao's watch exclusively. He wasn't an absolute ruler and shared most of his power. The only reason 'his' death toll was so big was the Great Leap Forward, which wasn't his policy but rather an ill-considered compromise between Mao and rival factions, and it failed miserably. He was willing to sacrifice some people to hunger, but nothing like what happened.

Compare this to Stalin, whose collectivization campaign was supposed to be violent and fatal because it was an attack on the peasantry, not a modernization campaign.

Anywas, Pol Pot rivals any of them.

Funny how shortsighted human history is that most people wouldn't even look outside of the century let alone the millenium to find the most evil human.

We can't know enough about the character of anyone born more than a few centuries ago to judge. That leaves us only with deeds, and no pre-modern butchers (barring Genghis Khan) can best the modern age's mechanized killing and bodycounting.

 

[Dakinks]

Jesus? jokes, there is no such thing, the one of the most evil people is George W. Bush

Nahh. People mistake incompetence for evil all the time. General rule of thumb, at least in my mind: People are inherently good. Good, but also stupid most of the things we mistake for evil -idk, the Iraq war, for example- are, more often than not, the result of good intentions executed poorly.

And I would vote Pol Pot. Clearly just bad for the world. Nixon, possibly. Incredibly smart and capable man, yet incredibly immoral and bad for his country.

 

[Dakinks]

Yeah, Japan did some pretty terrible stuff during WWII but they're hardly the same culture now. Actually, they're about as different from imperial Japan as could be. Blame the people who committed the crimes, not the race. That's kinda messed up