(February 12, 2011 at 8:21 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Genghis Khan apparently gained his greatest pleasure from seeing his victims' 'near and dear bathed in tears'. If that's true I'd say that's pretty evil.
How is that more evil than enslaving the near and dear of his victims as most ancient conquerors do? Or for that matter any purposed psychological measures undertaken by many forces in history to increase the terror of forceful conquest so as to encourage capitulation without conflict?
Neither genghis khan nor most of the other ancient conquerors set out to exterminate whole races who did not present any armed resistance simply out of ideology. I would say that sets hitler apart from genghis khan.