There's just no such thing as an amazing person. All people are of equal worth. It's a terrible concept.
All people are not equally talented. I'm not of equal worth to Messi in soccer, Brad Pitt in appearance, and on and on.
Now I'm pretty sure both were complex people both smaller and larger than the imprint they have on history: pretty sure Ghandi had many days when he got out of the wrong side of the bed and wasn't amazing, and probably even Hitler did some laudable stuff (history is silent on whether he ever, eg, helped an old lady across the street or similar small moments of useful behavior that most of find ourselves doing).
Anyway, I definitely know an amazing person; and I'm married to them. :-)
Judged by modern standards, at least. Gandhi is reputed to have been a racist, misogynist, and possibly a pedophile.
> probably even Hitler did some laudable stuff
As I understand it, Adolf was kind to his dogs.
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And Mother Theresa wasn't so awesome, either.
People are complex. Narratives and mythologies are propagated to serve a purpose.
I am capable of seeing how my understanding would be different under a different regime, where it would be merely edgy for me to evaluate the constitutional merits of an event that was merely a footnote about a gap in the census population between 1939 and 1945 and beyond.
Such is life.
Who won the war decided their legacy.
Power by any means is the deciding factor
His non standard sex activities are known only because he himself shared all about his life with everyone. And he stopped when people pointed it out.
Gandhi by standards of his days was probably one of the least misogynistic leaders.
Lots of heroes aren’t worth worshipping. But let’s not throw the baby with the bath water.