Who is generally considered the most evil person in human history?

@turningthekeys bingo

@turningthekeys US Defence Dept is the number 1 Terrorist Group in the world.

@turningthekeys you are freebto move. Cuba and Iran are nice

@bijouxbroussard I often wonder, how deranged in the head someone has to be to even think of a torture device such as the brazen bull 😖

@Fishy He definitely got his comeuppance, though. When Phalaris was defeated by Telemachus, the army used that bull on him.

@Fishy crazy thing too, his first test subject was the engineer that designed and built it.

@bijouxbroussard We seem to gloss over human history. Back in the day, the winning army, would go on for days, torturing, killing, raping, until they made sure every single person was either dead, raped, robbed, and able bodied men/women are gathered up and then sold into slavery, and the town/area was burnt to the ground, along with its agricultural fields.

Look up Hanged, drawn and quartered for an example of how Europeans used to entertain themselves. Or what the Ottomans used to do: skin someone alive, salt them, and leave them in the open.

Indeed it is!
@bijouxbroussard

@Northwest I think yours was the best answer, because it covers all considerations in being able to even make that judgment.

And I’m really sorry about your cat. 😿

True. “evil” is a relative term. Who IN YOUR OPINION is the most evil person in all of human history?
@Kwek00

@SW-User I honestly have no idea... Maybe, some serial killer.

From my point of view, Hitler is pretty evil. But inside his own ideological framework, he was just doing what needed to be done to create his vision for Germany, which he labeled "good". But serial killers... they literally only do it for their own fun. They ussually don't have a moral framework, they just have an urge and it brings them pleasure. The dead count might be a lot lower... but the reason why they do it is diffrent then most dictators.

@Dolimyte whaat? What did he do

@Roundandroundwego I'm anti-war as well.

There were Spanish people here too. They were forcing the French out. @Roundandroundwego

The French were coming here for a better life, just like the Mexicans are now, and were slaughtered. @Roundandroundwego

True. He was a very evil man, indeed.
@thepeculiarpanda

@Theyitis a panel? You mean Dr Michael Stone?

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I don’t remember for sure whom it was, but I wasn’t under the impression that just one man was rating them on the scale.

@SW-User I'll check it out.

@SW-User I just watched the trailer it seems like a very intense movie.

@Lostpoet It is, but any movie that holds a candle in love will be from that time. It holds thoughts and feelings we should think about onto this day.

@TheRascallyOne You really should pick up all the little round pellets you leave behind.

@Jenny1234 Bill Clinton ? Something is really wrong with them. 🙄

@bijouxbroussard I didn’t get it either.

@SW-User @Kwek00
i'm adding 'the great leap forward' and the revolution together.. the death toll under Mao Zedong was so great that scholars argue over the accuracy in tens of millions

@tenente I'm not disagreeing that Mao didn't kill a lot of people tenente... and his regime beats Stalin and Hitler... that's for sure.

I'm just really sure Hitler and Stalin both did a lot more then 3-4 million.

And then something that I adressed somewhere else... is that these are still regimes. We can blame it all on that leader figure, but I think that's just a bit too easy. It's a regime, many people joined in on the murder, and yes there was a leader, but there was also a mindset that people just agreed with because they believed they were doing the right thing.

If the Trump thing in the US ever dies out... people will point to him for all the crap that happened. Some people are already pretending that he's the sole source of all the negative stuff you see. But at the end of the day, there is an entire group of people that are pushing everything that is happening. The responsibility is way more difused when it comes to regimes and political movements.

Same happened to our guy (Leopold 2) who is often blamed for all the attrocities when the king was exploiting Congo as his own territory (not Belgians)... however, it was a mindset of thousands of colonists that created the attrocities over there. Just pointing to the king, gives a really simplistic view of what actually happened.

@Patriot96
No, you read about it! Don't send me down some path to find the answer to the question that you were unable to answer.

If you can't tell me why you think it was Johnson's war, then delete your statement to that effect.

@SandWitch no dummy do some research.
Johnson expanded the war. He and McNamara tried to run the war from the oval office

@Patriot96
You don't know anything about the Vietnam war, despite using a picture of a US Serviceman cloaked with an American flag in your username photo to pretend that you're part of that club of true patriots. Anyone who knows their war history is a true patriot. You on the other hand are a total fraud.

Eisenhower dragged the USA into the Vietnam war in 1957, which was 2 years after the war had started between north and south Vietnam. Eisenhower got the US involved strictly for America's financial gain in the matter because the US military was and still is a 'gun for hire'.

The US military was hired by the south Vietnamese government to come over with American resources to stop the advancement of the north Vietnamese into south Vietnam.

Eisenhower did not drag the US into that war to stop the spread of communism which was how he lied to the American people, yet Americans were ultimately sold on the idea that it was a good idea to go to war against north Vietnam which was purely a propaganda-play that Eisenhower used against Americans to get them to come onside with his financial scheme. This is no different than how George W. Bush conned the American people into believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction hidden in the desert, which then gave Bush the green light to invade Iraq when Americans believed his BS.

The US government would not allow any other Nation to come over to Vietnam and join in the fight because this was America's war and would ultimately be America's financial gain at the end of the day as well, which the US had no intention of sharing with any other Nation.

Who ended up working alongside the US military were paid mercenaries from other countries who were paid by the US government to covertly assist them in the fight. This was why the draft was imposed in the USA during the Vietnam war, because of a distinct lack of enlisted American troops.

Over 60% of all American soldiers who went over to Vietnam were draftees who did not want to be there, but were forced to be there by the US government. That is why the US paid thousands of mercenaries to join in the fight because Americans were no longer enlisting in the US military because they didn't trust the US government considering the US was losing badly to the north Vietnamese army. That is also why draft-dodgers fled the USA during the Vietnam war because they did not trust their government and would not be a part of that action.

Kennedy then took over and continued that war after Eisenhower because of the money that was still being made by the US for their involvement in Vietnam.

Johnson then took over and continued that war with a the same concept of financial gain in mind that his previous Presidential predecessors were using because supplying an endless supply of American troops and hardware was very lucrative for the USA.

Nixon then took over from Johnson and continued that war until the anti-Vietnam war movement in the USA went beyond Nixon's control and he realized that the US government could no longer fool the American people of why the US was still involved in Vietnam.

America's involvement with Vietnam was not about stopping the spread of communism, it was about the vast sums of financial gain the US government was getting from supplying troops and other resources to that war effort which has continued to this day in other parts of the world involving the US military.

Nixon then began to withdraw troops from Vietnam when his popularity began to slide, but he did this only near the end of his term because he thought the troop withdrawal would boost his low popularity among Americans. But Nixon failed to gain popularity despite the initial withdrawal because of his Watergate scandal.

Nixon's last ditch attempt to withdraw all troops from Vietnam to save his own political ass resulted in America's embarrassing retreat from Vietnam, but Nixon still got Impeached because of Watergate nonetheless. President Ford then took over by default for the remainder of Nixon's term in Office.

For you to suggest that Vietnam was "Johnson's war" really points to how disconnected you really are from your own country's war history.

I would strongly suggest that you remove your username photo of a US Serviceman draped with an American flag because you are a disgrace to your country, Patriot96.