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Re:Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Populariz... by bigstrat2003 on Friday January 26, 2024 @07:06PM (#39150685)
The bad things a person did do not cancel out the good. One should appreciate the good things a person did even though they disapprove of the bad.
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Re:Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Populariz... by yakz on Friday January 26, 2024 @07:39PM (#39151002)
It should cancel out the credit, though. If a bad person does good things, they’re still a bad person.
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Re:Tip Your Chef's Toque to Henry Ford, Who Helped Populariz... by EdwardDiego on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:25PM (#39151360)
They do when weighing up a person's overall contribution to the world.

If you're one of Hitler's personal heroes, that carries a lot of weight.

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