Quote Originally Posted by Korpsy Knievel View Post
Dictators by genocidal body count:
Code:
Mao Ze-Dong     49-78,000,000 (China 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)
Jozef Stalin     23,000,000 (USSR 1932-39, the purges plus Ukraine's famine)
Adolf ******      12,000,000 (Germany  1939-1945, (concentration camps and civilians WWII)
Leopold II       8,000,000 (Congo 1886-1908)
Hideki Tojo      5,000,000 (Japan 1941-44, civilians in WWII)
Ismail Enver     1,200,000 (Turkey 1915-20, Armenians + 350,000 Greek Pontians + 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20))
Pol Pot           1,700,000 (Cambodia 1975-79)
Kim Il Sung      1,600,000 (North Korea 1948-94, purges and concentration camps)
Menghistu       1,500,000 (Ethiopia 1975-78)
Yakubu Gowon     1,000,000 (Biafra 1967-1970)
So if you'd really meant to knock marc's jokes you'd have selected Mao or Stalin for comparison since their genocides were far worse than ******'s. Finally, I'm starting to understand your sense of humor.
Not true.

If you want to weight a crime you have to consider the subjective motives.
Courts in europe consider that in penal law you should too.