The most evil in history?

[Inseriousity.]

I actually think people's indifference to fighting evil is the biggest evil in the world. I wonder how effective these regimes would be if people had been more proactive in tackling it. Admittedly, easier said than done but that shouldn't mean not to try when there are examples throughout history of people doing so in the smallest of ways (Anne Frank's family being hidden, for example).

[The Don]

I actually think people's indifference to fighting evil is the biggest evil in the world. I wonder how effective these regimes would be if people had been more proactive in tackling it. Admittedly, easier said than done but that shouldn't mean not to try when there are examples throughout history of people doing so in the smallest of ways (Anne Frank's family being hidden, for example).

Sounds like victim blaming to me

[Inseriousity.]

How so?
The way I see it there are three types of people: the privileged, the oppressed and the middle ground. The privileged are unlikely to give up their power for the sake of the oppressed and the oppressed are powerless to act. However, the people in the middle ground are neither privileged nor oppressed and so must do all they can to help those oppressed rather than side with privilege. I don't really see that as victim blaming at all.

[Catchy]

@:-:undertaker:-:; where the hell is fred and rose on ur image?!

[:Markster:]

How so?
The way I see it there are three types of people: the privileged, the oppressed and the middle ground. The privileged are unlikely to give up their power for the sake of the oppressed and the oppressed are powerless to act. However, the people in the middle ground are neither privileged nor oppressed and so must do all they can to help those oppressed rather than side with privilege. I don't really see that as victim blaming at all.

Well in ideology that's a good statement but in reality the middle class isn't a very big group of people, or hasn't been one up until the industrial revolution really. Only recently has the size of the middle class begun to grow with people moving to cities and living less at the country side doing agricultural work. An example of this would be the Russian Revolutions in 1917. There was not a very big upper class or bourgeoisie, the middle class was nonexistent and then there was a massive lower class. After Czar Nicholas II managed to piss people off with several bad decisions (losing in wars up to the Bloody Sunday of 1905) Lenin promised the people 3 simple things which were peace, land and bread. With the masses of the lower class behind him he was able to overthrow the government. It's more or less the same with Communist China. As the government controlled so much (education, the economy etc.) people were brainwashed into believing that the government was doing the right thing. Even after Mao Zedong died and his actions of killing millions were published he was viewed as a saint. So in conclusion the middle ground isn't very big and in many cases they aren't aware of the things the oppressors do, they think what they do is right or in some cases they just don't believe it (which is what happened during the holocaust, the USA just didn't believe what people were telling them about Hitler and what he was doing to the jews).

On the note of the evilest person, i think there is evil in each and every one of us. Whether we have the ability to control it or not is a whole different thing. I guess it brings up the nature vs. nurture argument; were we born evil or do some people become evil as they grow up. For example it has been noted that in psychopaths most of them start out with hurting animals, not being able to feel compassion for the creatures, their curiosity just overwhelms them. I believe that the spectrum of "most evil" is a very subjective one. Each person can look at it differently, whether it's by the sheer numbers or for example the severity of the killings. Heck i could even say that people that embezzle from schools and orphanages are the most evil people in the world. Also it depends what side you look at it from. There was a Finnish sniper in WW2 who killed 505 russian soldiers, the most recorded in any major war. In Finland the man was a hero while in Russia he probably was public enemy #1.
So to end it all off - evil is a very hard thing to measure, to find the most evil person you have to create a criteria for it and specify what exactly you're looking at.

[Inseriousity.]

Regardless of how big it is, it's there - it doesn't really have to be a class issue - and granted, propaganda won't reveal the big picture but I'm not talking about the big picture. I'm talking about the small piece of the puzzle where you see someone in pain and instead of turning the other cheek, you help out as best you can. The good samitarian story in real life, basically.

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thatcher

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powertoo

[Attain]

I personally think that Lord Kitchener.
As he was the one who thought of the concentration camps , at first he suggested this to impress Adolf Hitler.
Hitler approved of course and then went on to use the camps to hide political enemies.