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historically respect has been reserved for people who kept fighting to the bitter end and not for those who gave up.
by bryanrasmussen 3y ago
historically respect has been reserved for people who kept fighting to the bitter end and not for those who gave up.
- p-e-w 3y agoNope. Only for those lucky one-in-a-thousand among them who did eventually win. Nobody respects, or even remembers, those who fought "to the bitter end" but lost anyway.
- Teever 3y agoWhat do you get out of making these kinds of posts on HN? Like, do you think it's productive to set some bait out so you can argue about something abstract or subjective like whether or people respect people who fight unwinnable battles? What does it get you in the end?
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoThe Spartans lost the Battle of Thermopylae. Thousands of other glorious defeats are immortalized throughout history in poetry and song.