Who are the most evil people throughout history?

[Mineshaft_Gap]

You have obvious answers like Hitler, Stalin, Mao etc. Within the last 100 years we've seen quite a large number of truly evil people. I just wonder who are the figures throughout history who come close to stacking up to someone like Hitler?

As hard as I try to think of someone... I can't. With a world history littered with villains Adolf Hitler seems like the leader of the pack. But maybe I just lack historical perspective. Was there ever anyone worse?

 

[ComputerMKII]

Bobby Kotick

 

[Culebra 64]

My ex wife.

 

[Megadragon15]

Vlad Tepes.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Ever watched that most evil show on discovery? Some pretty pretty pretty evil people there on that list.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

J Edgar Hoover.

 

[Solo]

George Lucas

 

[strafer]

Uwe Boll

 

[KibblesBits]

Jenny McCarthy

 

[Witchfinder General]

A fuckload of warlords and militia in Africa, specifically Somalia at the moment.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Genghis Khan was a pretty evil motherfucker

"Overall, the Mongol violence and depredations killed up to three-fourths of the population of the Iranian Plateau, possibly 10 to 15 million people. Some historians have estimated that Iran's population did not again reach its pre-Mongol levels until the mid-20th century."

i said goddaaaaaaamn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan#Negative

 

[Rage Kage]

Genghis Khan

Edit: Damn beaten

 

[vilmer_]

Elizabeth Báthory

 

[Count Dookkake]

Everyone who allowed, covered-up or participated in the abuse of children by clergy.

 

[BocoDragon]

Gengis Khan was a pretty evil motherfucker

Yup. And his DNA is found in 1/10th of Asian people or so because of all the women he took disturbing.

 

[MC Safety]

Jenny McCarthy

No, she's just ill-informed and lucky the American people are stupid enough to consider a woman who makes funny faces and shows her well-developed breasts an expert on vaccinations.

Uwe Boll

And, no.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Hitler

 

[Megadragon15]

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

 

[CHEEZMO™]

Probably someone who's not in a single history book.

 

[Forkball]

Whoever invented panty hose. We went from THIS

TO THIS

 

[Like the hat?]

some serial killers have to be up there. Dahmer, etc.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

general butt naked.

 

[Lonely1]

Jobs.

 

[damn that's nice]

Bobby Kotick

 

[Tigel]

Jobs.

*Avatar quote*

 

[victreeb3l]

my dad /emo

probably some african war lords or cartel leaders

 

[Count Dookkake]

some serial killers have to be up there. Dahmer, etc.

Eh, Dahmer seemed to be among the few serial killers who was actually remorseful. I believe he really had no idea what he was doing or why.

 

[I_D]

http://www.amazon.com/Most-Evil-Men-Women-History/dp/1854794884


Explorers of unknown countries tended to be pretty evil. They wiped out natives like it was nothing.

 

[HiroProtagonist]

Pol Pot? Obviously a smaller scale than Hitler, but still devastating to the Cambodian people and population. Wikipedia says:

The combined effects of forced labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21 percent of the Cambodian population.[5] In all, an estimated 1,700,000–2,500,000 people died under his leadership.

 

[BocoDragon]

Eh, Dahmer seemed to be among the few serial killers who was actually remorseful. I believe he really had no idea what he was doing or why.

Yeah.. I was just gonna say that I actually felt sorry for him being like that.

 

[freddy]

Uday Hussein

 

[dsister44]

Saloth Sar
Andrew Jackson
Ernesto Guevara

Some people that don't get mentioned often

 

[ianp622]

What is evil, really?

Mental illness?
Ignorance?
Blind faith?
Unrestrained desires?

How do we make such a distinction between these and evil? Or even between those words themselves? I think calling someone evil is just a way for people to cover up the fact that almost everyone has had a brush with these character traits at one time or another.

And why are some character traits considered surmountable, and others not?

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Fred Rogers...
to name a few.

 

[Deleted member 81567]

Capcom

EDIT: Since it's people, everyone in Capcom.

 

[BocoDragon]

What is evil, really?

Mental illness?
Ignorance?
Blind faith?
Unrestrained desires?

How do we make such a distinction between these and evil? Or even between those words themselves? I think calling someone evil is just a way for people to cover up the fact that almost everyone has had a brush with these character traits at one time or another.

And why are some character traits considered surmountable, and others not?

There really isn't a such a thing as evil.. It's just certain actions that a unanimity of others would condemn.

 

[Count Dookkake]

http://www.amazon.com/Most-Evil-Men-Women-History/dp/1854794884


Explorers of unknown countries tended to be pretty evil. They wiped out natives like it was Tuesday.

fixed

Yeah.. I was just gonna say that I actually felt sorry for him being like that.

He gets bonus points for admitting his guilt and not trying to claim he was framed or any other such nonsense.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Saloth Sar
Andrew Jackson
Ernesto Guevara

Some people that don't get mentioned often

I've read Guevara's biography and he doesn't seem like a very evil person. After becoming a doctor he volunteered at a leper colony and generally showed compassion toward others. His goal was to help the poor indigenous people who were being taken advantage of. After he met Castro and became radicalized he did some nasty things to further those goals but calling him an evil person overall seems like a stretch.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Elizabeth Báthory

See it's only by happenstance I looked her up on wikipedia. It would help to give at least some description of what the person did.

Incredibly fucked up.

These are the kinds of posts I'm looking for. You people making posts like HURRR UWE BOLL need to piss off. You aren't funny and you aren't original.

 

[LuchaShaq]

Leaders on both sides of the Crusades.

 

[entremet]

Ronald Reagan. Just ask Latin America.

 

[Celsior]

Hilter
Curt Schilling
Stalin

 

[damn that's nice]

the raptors from jurassic park

 

[Leona Lewis]

Caligula. Even Hitler had friends, but not a single soul would have escaped Caligula's wrath if they had even barely annoyed him.

 

[ajf009]

first post wins

 

[Lax Mike]

There really isn't a such a thing as evil.. It's just certain actions that a unanimity of others would condemn.

That being said, in my view, evil is continuing take certain actions, while having the knowledge that these actions are irrefutably wrong (according to your morals). Yes we can condemn people as evil because they're actions are despicable by our society's standards, but that does not mean they were evil, as they may have thought they were taking the moral high road in their actions.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

War warmongering conquerors throughout history.

Khan
Alexander
Caesar etc

 

[Gaborn]

Luis Garavito. The scary thing is he's going to be released.

I think comparisons to Hitler though are difficult and somewhat unfair. Hitler had access to technology that most historical figures couldn't even dream of that made mass killings much easier.

 

[Cheesemeister]

Doug Herzog
Bonnie Hammer

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

As I see it, there are two types of evil. The first is the desire to harm others (Hitler and his ilk). The second is just the willingness to profit from the suffering of others (tobacco executives, gun runners etc.). The first is easy to spot and people are quick to oppose it. The second is more insidious as it will often disguise itself as something else and the harm done is never as direct.