@fox_news I think about him a lot. How dirty the USSR did him. Today I'm wondering if he chose wrongly; if maybe he should have let the world destroy itself.
Genocide after holy war after mass famine after plague after invasion after enslavement after nearly melting the crust into trinitite, with some occasional kindness thrown in for spice and contrast. Tell me I'm wrong. Genuinely please.
I think a lot about the fact that few people know who Norman Borlaug, or Dowager Empress Cixi, or Shaka Zulu, or Robert Kaguja, or Abu Ali al Hasan ibn al-Haytham, or Gerhard Domagk are.
@fox_news Well that's someone who deserves more respect than they get
...why do people know about fritz haber, a literal nazi whose development of the haber process only incidentally led to better fertilizer, and not borlaug? -F
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@Felthry Because no one cares if you save billions, but they're impressed if you kill millions.