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sjsdaiuasgdia11/04/20251 replyview on HN

I'm not required to find the good in a person like Musk. I'm allowed to look at the many shitty things he's done and terrible opinions he expresses and say "that is a shit man, and I do not like him or trust him."

He has probably done something for someone somewhere that wasn't terrible. Does it counterbalance the rest? Not really!

There's that (possibly apocryphal) saying, "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel." Just because a nazi has a redeeming quality somewhere does not undo them being a nazi.


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Ajedi3211/04/2025

You're not required to do anything. Consider though that if you refuse to see the good in people you disagree with, you have little room to complain when they refuse to see the good in you.

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