Who is the most important person in the world?
 

Think about it. If every human being had to die except for one. Lots of people say Bill Gates, decision based on the SNL skit in which he turns off the "screens" of the Pope and the President. So who do you think is the most important person, and why?

Oh and please guess what will happen to "the most important person is me" posts.

It wouldn't matter, because if that one person is left he/she couldn't do shit but wait to die. Nobody is important if they are the only person there is.

Actually, a person's importance is up to the power it wields over the people around him. If there was only 1 person left, he cannot be important. He can view himself as important, but ultimately, it is what he can do to others than make him important(powerful).

What use would Bill Gates's billion dollars do if he is the only guy in the world remaining? WHo'd run the machines?

What good is the Pope's status, if there is no one for him to exert that status on?

No one is important. We are important because of collective forces, and interactions.

You're saying the exact same thing I did but with a bunch more words.

The most relevant person in existance is me though, so I'm not sure why a post telling the public the truth is irrelevant. If I exist than this world that I exist in has no relevance, so without me there is nothing.

I can't even answer the question in a light-hearted manner, as it boggles my mind.

the most important person in the world is Big Brother

I'm gonna have to say the President of the United States, simply because I'm guessing that the majority of the world's population knows his name.

In my mind, "important" is how many people know of the person. Plus, he essentially affects the most amount of people with his foreign policy and public relations.

JK Rowling, because she hasn't finished the Harry Potter saga.

The entire universe is massively trivial, therefore everyone in existence is as trivial as anyone else. The most important person, on a subjective scale, should be you. If you decide to rank someone besides yourself as more important, then you are wasting your already wasted time to a greater degree.

Are you one of the people that answer the 'What's your desert island game' question with "Who cares, there'd be no mains supply"?

Well obviously I am, but asides from that, my GF is the most important person in the world.

but what's the point of being important if there's noone around to be more important than?

I cannot say one individual, because one single individual can achieve little without some form of support behind them.

Which s why I choose a profession rather than an individual.

Garbage collectors.

Without these fine workers, our entire society would crumble as we drown in our own discards and waste.

I offer the Great New York City Garbage Strike as evidence of my decision.

I hear Zachariah is the last man.

But he thought he saw birds to the west, so perhaps not.

By your logic, the Spice Girls were once the most important people in the world a while back.

Well, I wouldn't say the Spice Girls... did anyone in Africa ever hear of them?

However, I'm sure a lot of Africans know of "President Bush."

Chuck Norris.

No debate needed.

Actually, actually I think it is dead.

If it wasn't, you just killed it.

Then the world can rest easy.

From my perspective, the most important person is me. If I didn't exist, neither would my perception of the world and who's to say that anything even exists outside of my own perception, huh? Schrodinger's cat, biotch.

That's easy. L Ron Hubbard

John Titor. He's the only one that might be able to fix the problem of everyone in the world dying.

This thread is full of bubbles and paper flowers

Living or dead?

Living person, that's hard to say . . . whoever has control of the most people in the world, thusly President of China: Hu Jintao.

Dead, whoever the mitochondrial ancestor to all modern humans was.