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Irene The Insomniac's avatar

Lost my respect for him when he said, “take the damn shot”.

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Justin's avatar

Jordan is a great man who is grounded in principles that should knock down and overrun irrationality. The problem is that when the world is filled with irrational people, they will mow down principled people just because.... they can. And because they get joy out of showing that they can. Which, Jordan will say that they're psycopaths. And he'll be right, but still be squashed under an irrational system. Tilting at windmills. I, for one, applaud him, being principled myself. But having been mowed down a few times myself for standing on principle, seeing it from an outsider point of view, it's sad to watch someone else like me suffer. I still wonder what the hell has happened to this world? And why won't more people stand up against the obvious irrationality. I know why... everyone sees the suffering they themselves will endure, and they might even be right in having to suffer alone because nobody else has any courage to be associated with someone being ground up in the system, for fear of being ground up as well.

I admire his willingness to stand up against "the system". I wish more people would. It would bring normalcy and rationalism to all of our lives much sooner.

Late edit: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - "The Man in the Arena" - Teddy Roosevelt, 1910 https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Culture-and-Society/Man-in-the-Arena.aspx

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