WHAT PERSON HAS MURDERED THE MOST PEOPLE DIRECTLY BY THEIR OWN HAND, AND WHO HAS SAVED THE MOST LIVES?
WHAT PERSON HAS MURDERED THE MOST PEOPLE DIRECTLY BY THEIR OWN HAND, AND WHO HAS SAVED THE MOST LIVES? While many a historic leader can be credited with sometimes even millions of deaths via their orders, with perhaps the poster children of this in modern times being the likes of Hitler and Stalin, these individuals themselves only killed in a somewhat abstract way- not by their own hand directly. Which brings us to the topic of the day- who killed the most people directly by their own hand? And, on the more positive side of things, what bastion of awesome saved the most lives directly by their own hand? As for the negative side of this lively coin, one could argue that Brigadier General Paul Tibbets and Major General Charles Sweeny (or their respective bombardiers, Colonel Thomas Ferebee and Captain Kermit Beahan) hold the record here with their respective bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing somewhere in the vicinity of 70,000-140,000 people in the former, and 60,000-8...