Comment by Y-bar

Comment by Y-bar 8 hours ago

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Epstein was friendly with, and made more people smile, than he raped.

Phil Spector produced music which meant a lot to a lot of people. Still a murderer.

Harold Shipman Saved the lives of thousands, yet should always be labelled a mass murderer because he knowingly positioned hundreds.

Metacelsus 7 hours ago

>Harold Shipman Saved the lives of thousands

Probably not though, I don't think a typical GP saves thousands of lives

  • Y-bar 3 hours ago

    Not alone, but as a team I bet he did. Just as Fritz Haber did not personally save countless millions with his discovery, thousands of other people had to be involved there as well.

    • adastra22 an hour ago

      Billions. The total carrying capacity of the Earth maxes out at 4bn people, even with maximally optimized agriculture and a vegetarian diet. The extra half of the Earth's population today owe their existence to Haber-Bosch.

      It really was a two-man team that discovered nitrogen fixation - the other being not Carl Bosch, but Robert Le Rossignol who assisted Haber in developing his bench-scale nitrogen fixing reactor. Carl Bosch led the team that scaled it up, and that was a large effort of hundreds of people.