Skeptic Project

Who do You Think is a Better Person is it Jacque Fresco and Peter Joseph? Keep in mind in this hypothetical situation Jared Lee Loughner asked the question and is holding a gun up to your head.

To get more into details, when I say "better person" this is in a meaning of the leadership roles they play within their cults (weighing in their character, and value system etc...) but if you want to take it into a different direction then go ahead and do so.

I'd be interested to see why they choose the person who they think is a "better person" and their reason; as well as see their reasoning for not choosing the other person from TZM and or TVP (something they lack, just not as good, etc...).

They're both shitbags.

Judging from their achievements, Fresco loses hands down. His life is almost over, he has gained considerably from selling his ideas to an uneducated crowd and his achievements beyond personal wealth are disappointing at best.

If you can give one example not to use a "chaotic neutral"-loner type of character for a leader position, this might be one. Involved as an engineer in a well-organized enterprise, Fresco might do quite well. However staying with your criterion, i.e., a leadership role, Fresco doesn't appear to be qualified at all.

Merola seems to be attracted to power, while trying to maintain a "reluctant hero" position. He does not value constructive conflict, rarely changes his position on major issues, even when presented with undeniable evidence and doesn't live up to his role as the decision-maker of the movement.

On the other hand, he doesn't appear to aimlessly demand money from his members and I'd grant him some time to mature and adapt. If you would put Merola in some sort of education program for management & scientific thinking - and somehow satisfy his need for power in a productive way - I think he'd do quite well in the long run.
He certainly is interested in means to achieve massive social change, it's in his power to decide whether to waste it on a conspiratorial world view, attracting a servile crowd of lunatics or to put it to use in a more challenging, productive and democratic setting.

If he continues his CT movement, it's a tie. Maybe declare Fresco the winner for not relying on CTs and faulty extrapolation as much as Merola.

If he changes and gets involved in some meaningful social movement, it wouldn't be hard for Merola to do better then the ol' Venusian.

Merola needs meds.

I think they're both low lifes. But if I had to choose one I would say that Merola is worse. Fresco steals money but Merola steals minds.