he also owned slaves, which no amount of 'amends' can fix unless he like, personally gave each of those slaves like a grant of millions of dollars as an apology or some stuff
badspot once summarized this phenomenon pretty well, i can't seem to find it. basically he said that doing unrelated good things doesn't balance out the bad things you did before. if you go on a hacking spree and then try to justify your character or glorify yourself because you were nice to a couple people and contributed an add-on, you don't necessarily deserve the respect.
hopefully you understand where im coming from when i express this- there's no such thing as redemption. doing good for other people is a standard, a given, and it doesn't at all excuse or balance out all the stuffty stuff you did
That's a rather morbid and bleak viewpoint. No one ever performs at a 100%, 100% of the time. People will have good times and people will have bad times. Expecting someone to have a stellar standard of being good and never causing ill to others intentionally or unintentionally is incredibly unrealistic. Sure, once you take a life, perhaps there is that threshold where ""redemption"" is unfeasible. What can replace a life? What justice would you have? Take
their life? Would you waste another life for the sake of vengeance, or allow them to make the effort to make things better, in whatever means that may be in service? As far as we know, Lee worked to better America in
appreciable ways until his death by stroke. Listen, I'm not trying to say the people protesting are right, I don't support those people. Frankly there is it's own irony that they blindly defend a man historically shown to support equal rights, despite his more well known past. The whole situation in Charlottesville is disgusting. But everyone is getting riled up at a piece of artwork done in the early 1900's of a man who supported his community. The protesters are free to protest, in a civilized manner. But obviously that hasn't happened.
God all of you are lucky I'm high enough to stand talking about this stuff
