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1 thing is 1 too many. All should be renamed. Yes, that's a lot of things.
by mlinksva 10y ago
1 thing is 1 too many. All should be renamed. Yes, that's a lot of things.
- Ar-Curunir 10y agoNothing can ever be named after anyone then, because all humans are flawed.
- solipsism 10y agoA silly straw man. No one said things should only be named after flawless humans.
- mlinksva 10y agoIndeed. I would not mind if naming things after individual humans was seen as profane and never done. But I have a far, far lesser goal: ending the naming of things after humans who have claimed to own other human beings.
- Ar-Curunir 10y agoWhere does one draw the line then? Clinton has done plenty of awful stuff; I can totally imagine that in the future plenty of people will name stuff after her if she has a decent presidential term.
- ubernostrum 10y agoNo, because a while back we passed a law that all things must be named after Reagan. I'm just waiting for the Ronald Reagan Memorial Lavatory to show up at a highway rest stop...
- solipsism 10y agoOne draws the line wherever one draws the line. You have your own line, no doubt. mlinksva is stating his/hers. Intelligent people can disagree. It's completely subjective.
- triplesec 10y agoI think the objection being implicitly raised by GP here was rather of the problem of 'at what human flaw should we stop toppling statues and celebrations as we update our morals over time? '. It appears to be a valid question, in that slippery slope is not always a fallacy.
- WalterBright 10y agoAn interesting modern trend is deconstructing heroes of the past - Jefferson, Edison, the Wright Bros, etc., and elevating forgotten figures to heroic status - Tesla, Sacajawea, Gustav Whitehead, etc. I don't think there's really a right and wrong here, it's just the fashion of the times. Who knows who will be rehabilitated 100 years from now and who will be stricken from the monuments :-)