Death and approval
I was telling Kyle how deeply saddened I was by General Pinochet's death and how that made me feel really guilty.
I was only an aspirante dictator [...]. I’ve always been a very studious man, not an outstanding student, but I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.
General Augusto Pinochet, via The New Yorker
According to Professor, there is nothing wrong with mourning the loss of a person and not condoning their ill-doings all at the same time.
I was only an aspirante dictator [...]. I’ve always been a very studious man, not an outstanding student, but I read a lot, especially history. And history teaches you that dictators never end up well.
General Augusto Pinochet, via The New Yorker
According to Professor, there is nothing wrong with mourning the loss of a person and not condoning their ill-doings all at the same time.
2 Comments:
A man is made by his deeds.
Imagine mourning Adolf Hitler or Stalin without condemning what they did to Europe as a whole and to the tens of millions of people there... Imagie Nazi Germany winning the Second World War, or the Soviet Union still ruling East of Europe, including Bulgaria...
George Orwell tried to give one of the possible answers. The good thing is that often the anti-utopia does not come a reality worse than what we live in...
Pinochet is not so bad, and may indeed be praised for some of the things he did, incl. Chile now being the richest in Latin America, ahead of Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and even Argentina.
Still, he will remain controversial.
well...you may be right about Chile's level of economic development compared to other Latin American countries'. yet, i am not willing to tolerate the whole argument in favor of benevolent dictators...
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