(February 10, 2012 at 8:52 am)Epimethean Wrote: "You've got to admire him for that."
No, I don't-any more than I would have had to admire Hitler or the guys who destroyed the WTC. That is exactly the behavior I have to NOT admire, in fact.
Why do you wish you had been there?
I admire anyone with the courage of their convictions. I certainly don't have to agree with someone to admire them. Hitler was one of the most evil people the world has ever known but the technical, engineering and scientific advances in the Third Reich were incredible. Part of those advances were due to the vision and direction of Hitler. If it had been under the dictatorship of a 'nice' person the world would still be full of admiration for Hitler. The fact that he proved to be mad and evil does not stop me admiring the amazing, good things that he acheived. American investment money came flooding into Germany when Hitler started to turn Germany around in such a spectacular fashion. Both the Bush family and the Kennedy family were high profile investors who admired him greatly so perhaps you will feel that I am in good company whatever your politics are.
I wish I was there because no one in the video managed to challenge the idiot in an effective way. I am conceited enough to think that maybe I could have done.
Renew Wrote:What is to admire, when one brings a knife to a gun fight?But he didn't bring a knife to a gun-fight did he. He came along armed only with words. His posse cowered behind him to emphasise that he was all alone and vastly outnumbered by his 'enemy'.
I do admire him in exactly the same way that I would admire you for doing the same sort of (atheist) thing outside a large Christian gathering or a Rangers fan standing alone outside a Celtic fan gathering and bad-mouthing Celtic (Insert team names of your choice).
