What Single Human Has Done The Most To Damage The Progression Of Humanity? #shorts (r/AskReddit)

What single human has done the most damage to the progression of humanity in the history of mankind?

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[cyruahawkins]

Imagine traveling back in time just to get in jail for trying to teach people what we know now..

[DannyJ-ziib]

“Hey I think we should like, clean ourselves before we cut someone open”
“Hey, I think you should stfu”

[ttt]

Another possible answer: The monk who erased the work of Archimedes. Paper was difficult to produce and thus often recycled and erased/reused for bible transcription. One monk erased a work by Archimedes, and modern analysis and technology was able to figure out what was erased. Archimedes had layed out the foundation of Calculus, thousands of years before Newton. Imagine if society had access to that.

[duck]

I dont know if it counts as one person, hulagu khan when they burned and throw the books of the library of Baghdad into Tigris river, it says that the river turned black because of all the ink

[Myathaarth]

Sometimes I wonder, how even did we advance to this point?

[darien]

This perfectly shows how insanity is merely based upon the collective perspective. Not some intrinsic reality.

[tobysmith]

i did medicine in history in school, Galens theories held back everything as he was held in such high regard

[cflo]

It's so frustrating to watched how many people were dismissed due to the preaching of Galen's incorrect teachings. Like it's okay to be wrong man

[wudly]

If you think about it, it wasn’t just Guy De Chauliac who was at fault, but the entire academic / medical establishment that just agreed with him because he was a respected figure in his field.

[thatjokerperson]

"Who would you kill if you had a time machine?"

This dudes dad

[humha]

Theodoric: "I think we should wash our hands fi-"
Guy: "Hurr durr, off to mental asylum you go."

[this_mfr]

This is a classic example of how resistant humans are, especially on societal scales, to new ideas and change. Einstein was mocked ridiculed by the mainstream, too. It's always that way, especially when you are perceived as a threat to very powerful people and their status quo, such as political or religious leaders.

[fathomgathergood]

Ignaz noticed that there was more deaths of birthing woman and new born after they had been autopsies. He didn't know what the cause was but he figured they were probably cross contaminating between corpses and the living.

[bloodrune]

I think a lot of the pushback came from the fear of surgeons that they had been unintentionally killing a ton of their own patients when they could have been saving them. They didn’t want it to be true.

[awishforpeaceinthevoid]

Zuckerberg...He literally changed the way humans relate and even how we mate. eff that guy. (:

[bybanzai]

I think everything from politics to science is like this . Anything that questions the current belief system is suppressed regardless if it's right

[gaijininja]

The one that climbed out of the trees, stood up, and started the bigger brain but less thinking human.

[Aybek]

Julia’s Caesar, when invading Egypt, he ordered to burn the ships in the harbour, this fire spread and was responsible for burning down the library of Alexandria. The library’s goal was to have every book ever written, hired book hunters and said to anyone who entered the harbour had to hand over their books to be copied. A man named heron of Alexandria invented a steam engine and stored his studies in the library over 1000 years before it was finally reinvested

[freshandzesty]

Just thinking how much more advanced our world would be without people like this constantly setting us back

[thelegend]

Probably the guy who burnt down the Alexandra Library and set us back like 1, 000 years in technology

Edit: To the haters in the comments.

1) I never claimed to be an historian or an expert.
2) Were any of you alive when the Libary was around? So how do you know what was in there?
3) I get there were copies but what if there was original pieces that are gone forever now?
4) It's a Libary so it has History inside, so maybe not in Technology but in History we could have been set back 1, 000 plus years of our knowledge of the past.
5) Yes maybe it slowly was deteriorating but if the fire destroyed the pieces / work inside than that's more important then the structure of the Libary.
6) It happened forever ago so how do I and you know every detail of it's demise or what was inside.
7) Honestly if your gonna hate on a comment because it might be wrong or because it's a myth then get a life.
8) To quote NF "I'll accept advice if it's not presented ignorantly, " so yeah if I'm wrong just say hey I like the idea this is wrong and this is whats right. You don't have to hate on a stupid comment because your a cave dwelling troll.
9) Anyone reading this then have a great day peace.