Most evil person in history

[Agent327]

Getting sillier still...

 

[Perfection]

Albert Fish?

 

[Sharwood]

Albert Fish?

How the hell do you beat me to what I've wanted to say since this thread started four hours before my ban gets lifted? Fish is most definitely up there, if not the top dog. No real signs of mental instability, yet raped and murdered probably hundreds of children. At least dozens, even though he was convicted of only a few. Would try anything, including necrophilia and cannibalism, just because. Taunted his victims' families, which is what got him caught in the end. Pretty much a clear-cut case of evil, semantics and philosophy aside.

And Camikaze;

 

[Perfection]

How the hell do you beat me to what I've wanted to say since this thread started four hours before my ban gets lifted?

Thaey don't call me "Perfection" for nothing!

 

[Sharwood]

Thaey don't call me "Perfection" for nothing!

Touche. You couldn't have waited a little longer though?

 

[holy king]

Whut? You might as well blame the Jews, Zoroaster, the Middle East, the Levant and carpentry for that one... How exactly did "His Religion" cause the European domination of the world? Seriously?

Heck by that token lets blame sedentary farming... I mean seriously we wouldn't have had religion if it weren't for that...

yay, plain carpentry, i say!

 

[Masada]

Carpentry it is! Without carpentry he couldn't have been hung from the cross! No potent symbolism! No Christianity! No UBER evil faith of doom

 

[Sharwood]

But without carpentry, Harrison Ford would doubtless have turned to dust in that movie.

 

[classical_hero]

I am surprised that no Roman Emperors are mentioned. Surely killing people by the Brazen Bull and crucifixion ranks up with the most horrible ways to die, and they were pretty effiecent in killing people, so we need more respect for Rome.

 

[Sharwood]

I am surprised that no Roman Emperors are mentioned. Surely killing people by the Brazen Bull and crucifixion ranks up with the most horrible ways to die, and they were pretty effiecent in killing people, so we need more respect for Rome.

Their evilness, particularly Caligula's, is often overrated. Besides, they weren't on the scale of a Hitler or Stalin, and we saw where that argument went.

 

[say1988]

You also need to look at the morals of the time. Torture was common, accepted, and probably popular in the time of Rome.

 

[jsweeney]

Correction from before: Jesus Christ is the most evil person in the world. His religion caused the era of European domination of the globe, and it was during this era that more people died, more wars were fought, and more knowledge and culture was lost that in any other. Because of his actions we have Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and any other bad guy you can think.

how is Mao affected by Jesus?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

How about Dr. Mengele? I remember reading he was personally not just indirectly responsible for the deaths of 1 million people.

 

[jsweeney]

well, i know hitler, stalin, and mao have killed many, but seriously if this "War on Terror" continues through what will be inevitable a long, many may see bin Laden as the man who is indirectly the cause of all those deaths

 

[Zsilot]

Torquemada. That guy was such a religious fanatic he burned 1,500+ people too death and displaced/ruined millions of Jewish lives.

 

[Sharwood]

How about Dr. Mengele? I remember reading he was personally not just indirectly responsible for the deaths of 1 million people.

You know, Mengele was voted the most evil man of the 20th Century, but like most of the others mentioned, he didn't do it for pleasure, he did it out of a sense of duty, warped and twisted though it may be.

 

[Plotinus]

I don't see why doing something immoral for pleasure is worse than doing it out of a twisted sense of duty. Personally I'd be inclined to think that someone who justifies an evil act in such a way as to make it seem a good act is more evil than someone who attempts no such justification. The justifier is so thoroughly drenched in wickedness that they have, effectively, lost the ability to reason morally. Their reasoning is evil as well as their desires. That's not the case with the pleasure-seeker, who simply chooses to follow twisted desires. So to my mind, someone like Mengele, or indeed any of those Nazis who did what they did in the belief that their actions were justified, is far more evil than someone who kills simply for the fun of it. With someone who kills for the fun of it, there is always the chance that if you can get them to think rationally about what they're doing, they will change their ways. With the twisted justifier, there is no such chance, because they are already thinking rationally about it - or at least in a parody of rationality - and yet that simply spurs them on to do it all the more.

 

[Cynovolans]

Queen Ranavalona was very evil. Though not the most but maybe she would be if she wasn't restricted to the island of Madagascar. About a third of her entire kingdoms population fell just because she wanted old traditions back. She even boiled her victims alive just for sport.

 

[_random_]

I'd have to say Genghis Kahn.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'd have to say Genghis Kahn.

I'd call him and the Mongols ignorant more than anything else. They simply didn't understand the point of a city.