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Subject Ten Of The Best And Worst People Ever

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  Note that "zygotic personhood" (the idea that a fertilized egg is a person) is a recent concept. For example, before 1869, the Catholic church believed that the embryo was not a person until it was 40 days old. (Aristotle agreed with this 40-day threshold.) Thus, the church did not believe a human had a soul until day 40. Pope Innocent III in 1211 determined that the time of ensoulment was anywhere from 12 to 16 weeks.
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Hmmm... That's around that time that the odds of miscarriage in a pregnancy drop to less than 5%. Never knew about that 40-day threshold before - very interesting.

I don't think Mother Teresa should be on there - especially after reading Christopher Hitchens' "Missionary Position"

So who should be in her place?

Smedley Butler. He exposed an attempted Fascist coup on the White House and later penned the booklet "War is a Racket".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

Norman Borlaug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

Credited with saving more lives than any other who ever lived.
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Original Message The Scales of Good and Evil
Cliff Pickover
Below is a list of the "Top Ten" evil people of all time followed by a list of the "Top Ten" good people of all time -- sorted in order of evilness and goodness. Please add your votes. Who would you like to see added to the list? What alterations would you make to the list or the ordering? Do the scales of good and evil balance? If I may have permission to quote you in a manuscript, please give permission in your note to me.

Why is it easier to think of evil examples than good ones? Is it much easier to do something big and bad than it is to do something big and good?

Developing this list was not an easy task due to the complexity of human personalities and the fact that goodness and evilness depend on the perspective of the time. (For example, perhaps many Americans consider dropping the bomb on Hiroshima "good" whereas many Japanese consider it "evil.") On the evilness scale, I gave additional weight to those people who actually enjoyed and personally participated in the utter horror they produced. When compiling the good list, I also considered the number of people killed by the followers of the "good" person during the person's life time.

[link to sprott.physics.wisc.edu]

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