TChad’s point is correct.
And intentions do matter.
Would you not agree there’s a difference if you drive over someone on the road by accident verses driving over them on purpose? If you’re honest you will admit the point. And that the consequences should be significantly different.
While Carson’s beliefs proved deadly it was clearly not her intention to kill people. Hitler was a mass murderer with every intention of killing people.
There’s been numerous large scale disasters from lead poisoning and phalidimide to dam failures where ignorance was deadly. That doesn’t make them Hitler or anything remotely similar. Get a grip.
I’m afraid I have to disagree with you; intentions don’t matter, ultimate results do. Otherwise, it would be the road to heaven and not hell that would be paved with them.
That said, classification does matter. I agree that Rachel Carson is not in the same category as Adolf Hitler, as Hitler intended to do evil and Carson did not. She really should be classed with the people who, when faced with Hitler’s evil, chose to appease it.
Just as the peace-at-any-cost crowd’s policies in practice resulted in unilateral disarmament, so the policies that sprang from Carson’s writings left tens of millions of innocents defenseless against a natural scourge far more ruthless and devastating than any human malice.