LoveNotHate wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
My point is, had he never lived, someone else would have eventually done it, as the time was right. It's like when Martin Luther had described how the Reformation would have started with someone else, even if he had never been born, simply because he understood how dynamic the era he - and Columbus - lived in was. It was an age after the long period of cultural darkness, when there was a sudden explosion in the arts, in theology, and in the need to explore the outer world.
You're anti-hero.
-First response rescue workers at the 9/11 World Trade Center bombing are not heroes, because eventually someone else would got off their lazy butts and helped ?
- Rosa Parks, not a hero to you, because eventually someone else would told off a white bus driver (stood up for black civil rights) ?
Not true, because they were people of morals and a sense of right and wrong who stood up at the plate. Maybe others would have done something to fulfill that particular historical role, but it's the intent in their hearts that make them heroes instead of just persons of historical significance. Columbus made history, but he was hardly a hero.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
13 Oct 2015, 4:55 pm
