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Thank you for setting the record straight. God forbid someone wants to have Leonardo Da Vinci as their personal idol. I don't really understand nor respect suc

by sph 3y ago

Thank you for setting the record straight. God forbid someone wants to have Leonardo Da Vinci as their personal idol. I don't really understand nor respect such an opinion. It is putting yourself on a moral pedestal by pointing out the flaws of someone more accomplished than you. Superiority by proxy, and it adds nothing to the conversation. No one has said to make a statue of him and celebrate it as deity. I'm saying it is not a FLAW to imagine and design something 500 years before we can build it in the first place. Of course it is faulty. What have you designed that will be talked about in half a millenium?

GuB-42 3y ago
Fair point. However the idea is not to put myself on a pedestal. I am not special. Not only I have my own flaws, of course, but if you think I try to put myself on the same level as Leonardo da Vinci, which is true in some way, as we are both people, I also put you on the same level as Leonardo da Vinci. I don't know you, but like me, you are probably not a genius people will hear about half a millenium later. But you probably have some qualities neither I nor Leonardo da Vinci have. And on these points, you would make a better role model.