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Originally Posted by teku14
I'm not trying to "hang" him on the word invention. I am trying to cast doubt on his persona. And how is this relevant? I don't know about your morals but I value integrity very highly and will scrutinize even the most one-sided arguments if there is any question of integrity here. Call it pedantic, pretty, or frankly whatever you may but honesty and integrity are important even for a 14-year old.
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Seeing as there is a question of honesty and integrity, I have one simple question. Think very carefully before you answer.
How is casting doubt on someone's persona NOT "hanging" him or her (for lack of a better term close at hand)?
Let me explain, so that you may know why I ask. If integrity is important, and honesty is important, then I believe that it it quite important to maintain the integrity and honesty--and, additionally, the reputation for such. Am I not correct? And, the tarnishing of said reputation is rather a serious matter, is it not? And, furthermore, said tarnishing could potentially lead someone towards death. (That one wasn't a question. There are known or suspected cases of that happening.) At any rate, a smeared reputation may as well be a "dead" or "hung" reputation, am I not correct?
If you said yes to at least one of those questions, then I have another question for you.
Is one word being "wrong" (whether it is or not is debatable in this case--for one thing, it could have been a misquote) worth attempting to drag someone else's reputation through the mud over?
Think very carefully about your answer. I'm not entirely sure you're going to like it. For that matter, I can't say for sure I'd like my answer either if someone asked me that question.
Folks, this discussion of 1) whether or not there was racism, 2) whether or not the teacher/school administration/police went too far, and 3) whether or not the student in question actually built the clock himself...
...Is it really worth going into what many an outsider would see as personal attacks over? I've been following this thread, making almost no comments, and honestly, that's what it seems to be going towards. Could we try to keep it away from those? Thanks a lot.