Prize SOBs?

[Stein]

Query: Whom do you think are probably the prize half-dozen SOBs throughout human history?

I'll start with my six candidates:

Brhaspati, the ancient founder of Lokayata philosophy in ancient India who disapproved of feeding the indigent, slaking the thirsty, or sheltering the traveler.

Critias, the ancient Greek dictator, head of the Thirty Tyrants, who is the earliest (known, extant) head of state to have carried out a cold-blooded extermination policy in peace time.

Pope Gregory IX, who initiated the Inquisition, changed what had been free-lance persecution of Jews into official Church policy, and gave official Church sanction in an encyclical to the institution of slavery.

Jean Meslier, the first one in post-Renaissance times to explicitly argue for a variation of class/group genocide.

Joseph Stalin, responsible for the establishment of the Soviet gulags and responsible for at least 15 million deaths.

Adolf Hitler, responsible for the Holocaust, which killed millions, including six million Jews, and responsible for the start of World War II.

Thoughts?

Stein