Hi Pattern Chaser,Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑May 13th, 2021, 10:58 ampopeye1945 wrote: ↑May 12th, 2021, 2:58 am There is no historical figure who could match this man for pure evil and yet he was loved and worship almost like a god. He was a psychopath no doubt, but how did he charm a nation into relishing their humanity, how did he indirectly kill sixty five million people?
Stalin was responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million of his fellow countrymen. Churchill may have been responsible for the deaths of millions of Indians by famine, and championed the use of chemical weapons against human beings. All of them were 'political animals', and acted according to political and personal gain, not morality. It is difficult to say that one of them is "evil" if we do not also include the others. The 'bottom line' is that humans have treated other humans terribly, for all of their (our) history.
I do appreciate your point, it would probably be better to use another term. Evil tends to have some religious baggage. The term is useful none the less, Adolf certainly is a contender, with indirectly killing sixty five million people, that's pretty evil.