[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15446) undesirable rulers

["Benedict Adamson" <badamson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >

Graham Reeds wrote:
...
> My personal feeling is that since Stalin and Hitler were both (in)famous 
> leaders of their respective countries then they should be selectable.
...

Likewise.

And more subtly, if we decide that SOME leaders are undesirable, where 
would it end? Genghis Khan? William the Conqueror (I bet that surprised 
you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harrying_of_the_North )? Many 
pre-modern rulers would have used means repugnant to 20th and 21st 
century Westerners. If we simply allow ALL famous rules, we avoid all 
arguments about whether a particular ruler was or was not sufficiently 
undesirable.