{"id":85655,"date":"2024-02-14T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=85655"},"modified":"2024-02-13T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:07:19","slug":"qotd-judging-historical-figures-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/qotd-judging-historical-figures-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Judging historical figures&#8217; actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>It is important to judge people and events in their own time. First, because that&#8217;s the only way we really can judge them.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t judge people on actions they didn&#8217;t know were wrong, or on things that were hidden from them, which only time has revealed. Or rather, you can, but it&#8217;s deranged. What you are holding people guilty of is not being psychic. Not being able to foretell the future. Well, none of us can. Not with any accuracy, and never about things we want to. (Yeah, sometimes I get something like glimpses, but seriously? Do you see me among the lottery winners? No? That&#8217;s because I can&#8217;t see the future in a significant way.) Go ahead and despise people for that failing, but be aware you&#8217;re being deranged.<\/p>\n<p>Also, unlike the people on the left, most of us are aware we, ourselves, are not infallible, and our time is not the pinnacle of knowledge and morality. Things that seem right to us now \u2014 or at least not markedly wrong \u2014 can and will be reviled by future lovers of liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hoyt, <a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2023\/11\/07\/in-their-time\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In Their Time&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2023-11-07. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to judge people and events in their own time. First, because that&#8217;s the only way we really can judge them. You can&#8217;t judge people on actions they didn&#8217;t know were wrong, or on things that were hidden from them, which only time has revealed. Or rather, you can, but it&#8217;s deranged. 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