re: #65 Gus

Everything should be looked at within the context of human social evolution. Today’s good people are tomorrow’s assholes. Thomas Jefferson is a most recent example. FDR is another who may well be demonized for the Japanese internment. Mark Twain would never get a book deal today. It’s hard to judge people from centuries ago within the context of our current values. You look at the whole.

Twain is one of my favorite examples. People regard him a magical enlightened being today. He was certainly ahead of his time but he was by no means a politically correct multicultural saint by modern standards.