RE: Only in Fucking Texas
July 15, 2010 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2010 at 2:19 pm by Autumnlicious.)
If his misdeeds outweigh his accomplishments, then naming a building (which is subject to public scrutiny, if it isn't an oxymoron) is unwise, against the integrity of honored names and insulting.
Surely you wouldn't name a biology building after Watson and Crick, considering they stole research and credit from Rosalind Franklin?
Sorry Dotard, you're wrong on this one. Honoring a past figure with a building or sculpture should be restricted to honorable figures (honorable as in held in high regard and known mostly or widely, and known in that capacity for what holds them in high regard).
That is to say that a man who shows remorse for his previous transgressions and works to rectify them should be given the benefit of the doubt. But it is incorrect and an insult to the memory of others to ever lift even the most veritable genius or humanitarian to such a position when they stick to their inhumanity and defend it, no matter the greatness of their unconnected works.
Surely you wouldn't name a biology building after Watson and Crick, considering they stole research and credit from Rosalind Franklin?
Sorry Dotard, you're wrong on this one. Honoring a past figure with a building or sculpture should be restricted to honorable figures (honorable as in held in high regard and known mostly or widely, and known in that capacity for what holds them in high regard).
That is to say that a man who shows remorse for his previous transgressions and works to rectify them should be given the benefit of the doubt. But it is incorrect and an insult to the memory of others to ever lift even the most veritable genius or humanitarian to such a position when they stick to their inhumanity and defend it, no matter the greatness of their unconnected works.
