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Is quantifying someone's capacity for "evil" supposed to let them off the hook if he doesn't emerge as the most evil?
Since of the list, George Bush is the only living individual, is he evil? He has ordered the deaths of others and made decisions that caused the deaths of his own citizens, all for narrow commercial interests. I doubt if he was concerned that there is very little prospect of a broader outcome that might somehow balance those sacrifices. He lied - I believe knowingly - to deceive his own citizens into supporting an agenda quite different from his own.
But evil? I think such an extreme term needs to be reserved for far worse than GW.
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