> On 6 Mar 2001, at 11:19, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> > Brian Giles wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, I had to laugh. I'm sick of Hitler coming up over and
> > > over again in discussions too. (Especially that damn
> > > cloning one.) Perhaps we should start thinking up people
> > > *other* than Hiter we could use
> > > as examples when we need someone immoral?
> > >
> > > My nominations for evil personified:
> > > Stalin
> > > Pol Pot
> > > The Marquis de Sade
> > > and the guy who wrote the textbook to my college Logic course!
> > >
> > Saddam Hussein
> > Harry Truman
> > Augusto Pinochet
> > Mao Tse Tung [or Mao Zedong? What is the most recent spelling?]
> > John F. Kennedy
> > Bill Gates
> > The Unabomber
> > Charles the Jackal [Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, IIRC]
> >
> > (signature ommited otherwise I and my grandfather might
> > be included in the list of Evil Incarnate)
> >
>
> Why Harry Truman (IMHO one of the best Presidents of the 20th
> Century) ?
>
> john
I'd guess because he signed the order to bomb Japan. Me, I think it
probably saved a million lives in the long run.
Jim
"What can change the nature of a man?" - The Nameless One
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