(June 11, 2015 at 1:45 am)Brian37 Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 6:49 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Brian, while it's certainly true that Napoleon was a dictator, he was a comparatively enlightened and easy-going one. The French likely don't want to commemorate Waterloo because they really liked Napoleon (and still do). They were far better off under him than they were under either the Bourbons or the savages of the revolution like Robespierre.
Boru
Kings are dictators too. I cant ever put "progressive" in the same sentence with "dictator" after 14 years of online debate with theists who worship an unmovable God. Unless you have a government that has the opportunity to remove said leader by vote or by impeachment, it does not matter how kind someone might view that leader. Believers in God also think he is kind.
The point is that the French didn't mind being under Napoleon. They're hardly likely to want to commemorate a battle in which a leader who had improved their lives was overthrown by foreigners.
The notion that all dictators are inherently bad simply by being dictators is an absurd one. And conflating an imaginary God with a human leader of a human state is ludicrous.
Boru
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