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There's bad behavior among a lot of people who did great things. Do you feel the same way about MLK based on his FBI files? If everyone was super nice and ple
by bko 1y ago
There's bad behavior among a lot of people who did great things.
Do you feel the same way about MLK based on his FBI files?
If everyone was super nice and pleasant we would likely wouldn't have made any progress.
- callc 1y agoI don’t know about the FBI MLK files. But if I were to meet MLK or Ghandi or <insert widely recognized figure> and they were an asshole, I wouldn’t excuse or overlook their behavior. The underlying ideas here are greatness and individuals ascribed to doing great things. Without any evidence I suspect an extremely large majority of progress is done by normal individuals whose names we’ll never know.
- bko 1y agoHard disagree, I think I here are great men and they drive history. Its nice to valorize the every day working man, and I'm likely such a person. I mean a lot to my family and maybe a handful of others but I won't shape history no matter how hard I try. I can only hope to make the world better by bringing up well adjusted children that contribute to society. And that's fine.