Depends on their application? Well, if it makes sense then it's feasable in my book.
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Btw, nice post, Andy.
Personally, I'm not offended that people really don't care about the guy. That's their fine opinion (as if anyone asked them their opinion in the first place is another question), and I don't see that as reason to receive alleged "abuse".
But to Andy's naive point, I have to concur wholeheartedly. The guy had done a lot that irritated me and completely pissed me off. But at the end of the day, I can't think of a bigger figure for peace, for making appeals for inter-religious tolerance and understanding, etc., of the latter half of the 20th century. And as much as the Reagan-worshippers wanted to credit Ronnie for the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall in Europe, I would give the most credit to people who worked from the "inside": John Paul II, followed by Gorbachev. (They still have strong theories out there that John Paul II took an assassin's bullet over his non-violent activism that lead to the downfall of Eastern European communism.)
And for that, I don't think anyone can rationally say he was just another bloke in society without questioning their own motivations for saying that. Sounds like there's a whole other personal agenda going on there in that outright denial.
Personally, I'm not offended that people really don't care about the guy. That's their fine opinion (as if anyone asked them their opinion in the first place is another question), and I don't see that as reason to receive alleged "abuse".
But to Andy's naive point, I have to concur wholeheartedly. The guy had done a lot that irritated me and completely pissed me off. But at the end of the day, I can't think of a bigger figure for peace, for making appeals for inter-religious tolerance and understanding, etc., of the latter half of the 20th century. And as much as the Reagan-worshippers wanted to credit Ronnie for the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall in Europe, I would give the most credit to people who worked from the "inside": John Paul II, followed by Gorbachev. (They still have strong theories out there that John Paul II took an assassin's bullet over his non-violent activism that lead to the downfall of Eastern European communism.)
And for that, I don't think anyone can rationally say he was just another bloke in society without questioning their own motivations for saying that. Sounds like there's a whole other personal agenda going on there in that outright denial.
