Re: most influential

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Don Smith wrote:
> Then it occured to me that the question of "most influential" doesn't
> necessarily mean "positively influential", which is the way most people
> were answering the question.

Kind of like how, if Time magazine was sticking to its founders'
principles and not trying to play it safe, it would have chosen Osama bin
Laden and not Rudy Giuliani as the Person of the Year?  :)

> You could argue that Hitler and Stalin were two of the most influential
> people of the 20th century, simply by the sheer number of people whose
> lives were changed and affected (or ended) by their actions.

Lord knows, I wouldn't even *exist* if it wasn't for Hitler starting World
War II and Stalin scaring my Mennonite relatives out of the Ukraine ...

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