Antonin Scalia killed fewer people than Josef Stalin or Adolf Hilter.

[byronius]

Theoretically.

Just keepin' it positive. If you can't say something nice --

[hollysmom]

1. I am not sure about that, how many have died since we invaded iraq thanks to the bush vs gore ruling

[JFKDem62]

5. Yes. How many killed, maimed, tortured

as a result of his ruling?

His decisions had real life consequences.

[Journeyman]

11. Hannah Arendt wrote that by 1937 over 38 million people were missing from Stalin's USSR . . .

This of course was only in the first dozen years of his totalitarian rule, and does not include the vast numbers from the subsequent "Great Purge," or the residual effects of the Gulag imprisonments of millions more in the years leading up to the War. And then there were the purges in the War's aftermath, and the return of famine in the wake of the conflict. The aggregate numbers are staggering, and ultimately probably impossible to fathom.

That's just Stalin, and a very cursory look at his impact. I just can't imagine that anything has happened in the entire world over the past twenty years that is anywhere near equal to those horrors


Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Book III: "Totalitarianism."

[TeddyR]

2. Pretty sure

Scalia killed nobody

[byronius]

3. Well, neither did Joe or Adolf.

It was the ripples that did it. The ripples from the impact of the decisions they made.

[treestar]

7. +1

It's absurd. I don't like Scalia but there's no point in carrying these things out like this.

[Major Nikon]

4. Scalia didn't eat as many people as Jeffrey Dahmer

[Wilms]

6. That hasn't been confirmed. n/t

[Major Nikon]

8. I'm sure someone has checked the deep freeze by now

No doubt more than one of his family members has been going through all the places he might have stashed some cash.

[Kalidurga]

9. He probably didn't kick puppies

or eat kittens either. I can't be 100% sure on those two points. But, I will concede he probably didn't since there is no evidence to show that he did.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

10. I am just glad the hooker got out without getting caught

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