The questions I am asking here are not questions of fact, they are questions of opinion. I can't look up another person's opinion, I can only ask that person.
The reason I ask here is mixed. Partly I am interested in the thinking behind the position and partly I am interested in whether that same thinking is applied consistently in other places. At the moment there seems to be a bit of a movement, particularly in the US, where similar historical events are interpreted very differently according to who a person considers good or bad. For example, seeing the Spanish colonists and conquerors as bad people who destroyed the indigenous civilisation but not seeing the Aztec as bad even though they also conquered the other local tribes and brought them under their rule.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
The questions I am asking here are not questions of fact, they are questions of opinion. I can't look up another person's opinion, I can only ask that person.
The reason I ask here is mixed. Partly I am interested in the thinking behind the position and partly I am interested in whether that same thinking is applied consistently in other places. At the moment there seems to be a bit of a movement, particularly in the US, where similar historical events are interpreted very differently according to who a person considers good or bad. For example, seeing the Spanish colonists and conquerors as bad people who destroyed the indigenous civilisation but not seeing the Aztec as bad even though they also conquered the other local tribes and brought them under their rule.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~