To which I said he was, because he's actually DONE evil things. With the serial killers, they ALL did evil things, but some things could be seen as more evil then others. The hypothetical guy who WOULD kill millions, but can't, can't really be THAT evil because he hasn't actually killed anyone. Hypothetically.
True. I had presumed that my hypothetical example had killed as well, though not as many. My fault. I don't want to make Hitler more evil because he was better at it than somebody else. I know a good example: Charlie Manson. He was into the genocide thing as well, in his own unique way, had people killed, and probably killed himself. Is he more evil than Hitler? Now it's a numbers game. Also, Hitler was a moderately good artist and Manson was a moderately good singer. Hm...
I'm aware of that; I just found it was easier to word my response if I used criminal.
It does change the meaning though. If we count every person dead in the Holocaust as a crime, Hitler shoots way up the ladder of the most criminal (again falling to Stalin, however). Criminal is a tricky issue as well. Chalres Keating embezzles a trillion dollars. He's undoubtedly more criminal than a guy who sets up a meeting with a 12 year old boy on the internet and chickens out at the last minute, but I know which one I'd rather have over for dinner.
Yeah. This isn't concretely substantiated, but word is we got some pretty good use out of that data in Korea as well. See, now here's a guy who, by almost any standard, was more evil than Hitler. But he didn't have the name value, so he gets to cut a deal, while Hitler's grave gets pissed on half a century later. The Japanese government, by the way, see no problem with what Ishii did to this day (and it was bad stuff, if you haven't researched the specifics for yourself). Their official stance is that that's the nature of war. The public is coddled and fed propaganda. There's some truth in it. There aren't really good guys and bad guys like we're sometimes told.
Also, there was plenty of racial motivation in the Native American genocide. They dressed it up a bit, but it was there. It's called Manifest Destiny. There was racial motivation in the Japanese biological experimentation too, if not in the ideal, in the way it was carried out. Racism in history is another thing it'd hard for us to view objectively, what with the modern slant on it.