Who is your favorite criminal from history?

March 6th, 2023, 8:04 pm

Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑March 4th, 2023, 10:29 am Gandhi?

Gandhi is included in the poll in the OP.

Post by **Thera reads** » October 12th, 2023, 2:15 am

Jesus was accused of being a criminal even though he was trying to save the world. I wish I could get full insight into this more.

Good_Egg · Post by **Good_Egg** » October 15th, 2023, 4:03 am

Obviously one common/almost universal base criterion will be that the criminal has broken a law which we consider to be wrong by doing something that we consider to be right.

Yes.

I nominate Solzhenitsyn.

Lagayscienza · Post by **Lagayscienza** » October 15th, 2023, 9:27 am

l don't have strong feelings about most in that list. Martin Luther King Jr. seems to have been a brave and good man who struggled to improve the lives of others. I don't know a lot about Gandhi but I understand that he was a hero of Indian independence and preached non-violence. So they'd both get a vote from me.

My own favourites? I quite like Robin Hood. Although he might be more mythical than historical, but I like his purported motive - rob from the rich to give to the poor.

And the Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly. He had a unfortunate childhood. And I like his nonchalance. On climbing the gallows he purportedly said," Oh, well. Such is life. And life is such. And after all it isn't much."

In modern times, maybe the great train-robber, Ronald Biggs. I like that he didn't injure anyone during his crime (as far as I know). And it was interesting how he managed to get lost and avoid arrest for so long.