Not evil but as far as negative unintended consequences go you have to look hard to better Thomas Midgley,Jr
First he did leaded gasoline which over the years caused untold damage to millions of people. He then went on to work on the first CFC’s.
Doh! :smack:
Who was this Dacian philosopher?
I am amazed that I actually remembered =)
He was, well partly. I think it was his left arm.
And he achieved what Jews have been dreaming of for thousands of years: A mode of reproduction that involves no mother! 
The Wikipedia author puts a good spin on Bathory. WTF?
You win the thread.
I’d say Stalin. His purges and famines killed tens of millions, and they stopped once he died and was replaced.
He also decimated the officers corp in the Russian military, so when Hitler attacked the Soviets weren’t as capable of fighting back. Who knows what effect that had on the duration of WW2. But maybe it had some good too. A Soviet Russia that fully conquered Germany and Japan wouldn’t be too good either.
He was supposedly planning a massive pogrom of hte Jews and a nuclear strike on the US, and was poisoned by Beria (his security chief) in 1953. So tens of millions more dead. Probably the one redeeming thing Beria did in his whole life.
He probably helped ruin communism as a palatable ideology (him, Mao, Pol Pot, etc), which may have set back worker and labor rights all over the globe.
For all the thanks it got him . . .
Well, if tyrant’s dirty-worker is your career choice, you should never bother with retirement plans.
Evil Roy Slade. You can close the thread now.
Dave
Dave’s not here, man.
A tie between Curtis LeMay and Qin Shi Huangdi.
Personal evil done to me is the ONLY evil I can confirm as undeniably evil from my perspective, therefore I nominate my prick of a father.
If we’re talking potential evil then Bob Oppenheimer.
If it’s overall suffering evil then it’s got to be Jesus.
If it’s the evil I can least relate to or comprehend then it’s parents murdering their own.
I agree with the anti-body-count theory as that’s really just a question of access, opportunity and timing.
Knock it off.
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That said, this never did develop into a debate.
I would move it to IMHO, but I suspect that it would just carry the same baggage over there.
Closed.