Most evil person in history

[say1988]

Plotinus, I disagree. I believe if there is a actual reason behind what they do it isn't inherently evil. In some ways it is more despicable, but not more evil. If you truly believe that your killing of all the Jews will benefit the world, I would not call you evil. Stupid, despicable, vile, inhuman, vicious, horrible, and many other terms would be out there, but not evil.

In my view, with the truly evil, they are thinking rationally, they know what they are doing wrong, but believe they have some right to do it anyways and yet still performing the evil deeds, so that you can't make them change their ways.

 

[eastsidebagel]

In my view, with the truly evil, they are thinking rationally, they know what they are doing wrong, but believe they have some right to do it anyways and yet still performing the evil deeds, so that you can't make them change their ways.

Best thing so far in this thread. This was the answer I was looking for.

 

[Yeekim]

Plotinus, I disagree. I believe if there is a actual reason behind what they do it isn't inherently evil. In some ways it is more despicable, but not more evil. If you truly believe that your killing of all the Jews will benefit the world, I would not call you evil. Stupid, despicable, vile, inhuman, vicious, horrible, and many other terms would be out there, but not evil.

In my view, with the truly evil, they are thinking rationally, they know what they are doing wrong, but believe they have some right to do it anyways and yet still performing the evil deeds, so that you can't make them change their ways.

I agree with this as well.

 

[Millman]

Different answers. Did someone only now after 5 pages define what evil might be? Are you talking about death toll, motivation, or both? It's sad anyway that we had people like that succeed and get into high positions to do the bad stuff. Another question is did we fail to realize the evil before it was too late and how can we identify it?

The problem I see is that anyone wanting to get into power doesn't have to tell the truth about their motivations. I think they should take tough morale tests and lie dector tests before serving.

Another way to think of it is that there's no leader of 'one' really.

 

[Higher Game]

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

Something like 10% of East Asians are descended from him alone. That's a lot of rape. Throw in ruining much of the Middle East, killing more people than any other dictator in history as a percentage of the world's population, wiping out the Caucasian tribes of Central Asia and replacing them with Mongols (biggest racial genocide no one knows about), and contributing absolutely nothing of worth of culture, and you have the most evil man in history.

 

[jsweeney]

yeah hitler said once that no one remebers the Caucasian tribes and see Genghis Khan as a great leader.... in 1937

 

[_random_]

Something like 10% of East Asians are descended from him alone. That's a lot of rape. Throw in ruining much of the Middle East, killing more people than any other dictator in history as a percentage of the world's population, wiping out the Caucasian tribes of Central Asia and replacing them with Mongols (biggest racial genocide no one knows about), and contributing absolutely nothing of worth of culture, and you have the most evil man in history.

Thank you.