Criticise Your Heroes and Compliment Your Enemies

Stalin was also a metrosexual hipster in his younger years:

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Not sure if that's good or bad.🤔

But look where his ambition led him. ..to be one of the most despicable human beings right along with Hitler. You really admire Stalin?????

I like that, although there are occasional instances where one has to publicly criticise, particularly where politicians are concerned.

The squeaky wheel gets the electric chair.

I blame Jesus for this.

I agree (we shouldn't dismiss anyone simply on account of existing prejudices), but that's a separate argument to the one I'm making. I'm saying that we shouldn't make anyone a hero or a zero. Unfortunately, that seems to be the trend, especially thanks to the media. People are either heroes or villains, and often times both. Most tend to go from hero to villain, very few go from villain to hero, although it can, on rare occasion, happen (I'm thinking of David Beckham who was utterly despised by much of England for lashing out and getting sent off in a 1998 World Cup game, so much so that people were burning effigies of him in the streets, only for him to be treated by the country as some sort of Football Jesus in the years that followed - for what it's worth, I think both characterisations of the man were wildly OTT). However, the reality is that few people are all good or all evil; which is to say that we shouldn't be blind to our heroes' flaws nor should we wholly demonise our enemies.