Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
by Qi_ on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:03AM
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So by your logic we should remember people like George Washington as essentially evil. How is that fair? One’s achievements and flaws must be considered inside their historical context, not our modern viewpoint.
Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
by bigbillheck on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:19AM
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> inside their historical context
Even among just the founders, slavery wasn't an institution universally accepted even in Washington's day.
Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
by user-the-name on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:32AM
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Yes. Yes, we should.
Yes.
Then man kept other humans as slaves. That is evil. There is no question about this. People in his own time thought this was evil. He did it anyway. He was evil.
You say this mockingly, as if being a slave owner should not overshadow everything else you do in life.
Yes, it should. It absolutely should. Being a slave-owner is massively, grotesquely evil. It should be what you are remembered and rightly denounced for.
> Particularly when you use today's more sensitive moral yardstick to measure yesterday's actions!
Considering slave-owning to be morally wrong is not a modern invention. It was considered wrong at the time too, just not by those who were profiting off it.
For instance, I don't think you'd find many slave who did not think it was evil.