Best person: I’d go with an artist or scientist over any world leader so I guess Leonardo Da Vinci. (edit: I want to add Ibn al-Haytham for basically being the father of the scientific method).
Worst person: I think I’m going to go with King Leopold II of Belgium. Shout out to Hitler and Pol Pot for being 2 obvious answers. Ivan the Terrible: I see you being terrible. Vlad Dracula: you did plenty impaling. Those people were all more evil as individuals, Pol Pot probably being the most sick inside.
But King Leopold II was (arguably) responsible for more human suffering. And also Gorilla suffering. Chimps and bonobos too. His legacy has been bad for damn near the entire living family Hominidae and that, to me, puts him over the top in a crowded field. And his toxic legacy in Central Africa still causes issues to this day. (He wasn’t as bad to Belgians as he was to Africans but come on: Belgium is a failed state too. They just have such amazing chocolate and beer that no one gets worked up about it.)
Best person: I’d go with an artist or scientist over any world leader so I guess Leonardo Da Vinci. (edit: I want to add Ibn al-Haytham for basically being the father of the scientific method).
Worst person: I think I’m going to go with King Leopold II of Belgium. Shout out to Hitler and Pol Pot for being 2 obvious answers. Ivan the Terrible: I see you being terrible. Vlad Dracula: you did plenty impaling. Those people were all more evil as individuals, Pol Pot probably being the most sick inside.
But King Leopold II was (arguably) responsible for more human suffering. And also Gorilla suffering. Chimps and bonobos too. His legacy has been bad for damn near the entire living family Hominidae and that, to me, puts him over the top in a crowded field. And his toxic legacy in Central Africa still causes issues to this day. (He wasn’t as bad to Belgians as he was to Africans but come on: Belgium is a failed state too. They just have such amazing chocolate and beer that no one gets worked up about it.)