I know that I might get banned for even mentioning this, but I thought it would be a good question. We all know of Mohandas Gandhi, a man often considered the most evil man of the 20th Century. What I'd like to ask is, what if he adopted pacifism instead? Would he have become a hero, or would he have just passed into obscurity?
(OOC: I watched part of Richard Attenborough's Gandhi last night, which led to this idea. Gandhi is one of my personal heroes, so I thought it might be an interesting exercise to imagine him as something darker.)