who would you remove?

Would millions of jews have been rounded up tortured and murdered if there was no adolf?  would millions of japanese have been vaporized if there was no truman, or no feynman?  Would a zillion gallons of toxic stored energy been dispersed into our planet's life blood if knox d'arcy had been content as a lawyer?

employing foresight instead of hindsight who do you think would do the world the most service by disappearing tomorrow?

whether it be traumatized puppets or sociopathic bankers who is the worst of the worst?

What a can of worms to open! Worms with human faces  and I have been given a magnifying glass to fry to them dark shriveled husks - but also to see their so human but so ugly faces.

The metaphor is getting out of control.

A poll about such a philosophical question is hard to answer because my brain wants terms like 'monster' defined and I have real trouble clicking sentences with absolute words like 'only', 'never', 'all' and 'everything'.

As for the second part - My birthday ritual is to re-read the Book of Job . Let me give a sample of the Job 's opening lines (from Mitchell's translation):

God damn the day I was born
and the night I was evicted from the womb
On that day - let there be darkness

So I'm very tempted to volunteer myself for this 'moral darwinist' thought experiment and it would eliminate having to worry about it - but I doubt I would qualify as "worst of the worst" most interpretations.

I'm going to take some time to think on this one. I will give an answer but I want this question to keep me feeling uncomfortable for at least a day or two.

Mulling this over I believe that this question begins the process of creating Satan, or a similar deity adversarial to humanity.

To place a human face as the singular embodiment of evil is too dangerous - especially when we consider how faked and distorted history is. It also seems to privilege some suffer over others. One lesson I have taken from anthropology is that it is often better to have gods and supernatural beings  work as scapegoats. Let people curse Satan or evil leprechauns, rather than the 'witch' or sinner next door.

You could take a utilitarian perspective and simply eliminate whoever caused the most suffering to the most humans. [That might be a good SF story: massive statistical analysis has determined that by eliminating some average human in the Middle Ages the most amount of human misery could be saved and the technology exists to give them a brain aneurysm via time-travel - discuss.]

Or you could invert the 'Job Argument' above and set your cross-hairs on 'The Creator' and nip all this suffering in the bud. Or maybe just kill the whoever is responsible for legalizing cigarette in Canada so I could get a few more years with my mother.