Whats your opinion on having an opinion?

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  1. Stephen Dawson

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    People like that eventually pull you down to their level because you feel obliged to drink in 5h it holes because you feel sorry for them stood on their own propping up the bar or sat at their favourite table.
     
    Stephen Dawson, Jan 21, 2022
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    All the worlds evils are caused by good men doing/saying nothing
     
    Marlon, Jan 21, 2022
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    Duntpasstome Well-Known Member

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    That's actually not true and putting all the onus on good men.The world's evils are about men doing evil things. Challenging them can stop things escalating though.
     
    Redhelen, Jan 21, 2022
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    But it is true though .
    For example Hindenburg could have stopped Hitler in his tracks .
     
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  6. Stephen Dawson

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    You could give them a severe talking to like Neville Chamberlain.
     
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    I've come off twitter and don't post on Covid related subjects on here anymore - not worth the mental destruction.

    This sums it up nicely and made me chuckle:

     
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    It's just that quote seems to put all the onus on the goid people.

    As to Chamberlain, a lot of people whether in government or not wanted to avoid another war after the horrors of WW1. And too many people were so desperate to avoid any sniff of communism that they were prepared to make multiple excuses for the Nazi regime.a
     
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    Not having been to a match all season due to having one of these pesky opinions I've drunk less, been a lot warmer, completely reorganised the flat (changed the function of every room other than kitchen and bathroom), prepared meals for the week, not got irate as Kitching lets his man ghost past him for the nth time that afternoon, not been affected by the bridge...
    My well being certainly doesn't seem to be adversely affected.
     
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    Thats a misquote of a misquote
    good article on it here
    https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-edmund-burke-quote-idUSL1N2PG1EY

    Key points are
    The misquote you are looking for is
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” allegedy attributed to Burke

    What Burke actually said was
    “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

    so as @Redhelen says above the Bad men/women are the cause of evil, but if the good do nothing they will get away with it
     
    Farnham_Red, Jan 21, 2022
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    Chennels perhaps, £1.90/pint (J Smiths) just gone up from £1.75.
     
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    I'm saying there's more to it than just good people doing something. If it's half arsed better to not bother at all.
     
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    What's my opinion on having an opinion?

    I'll get back to you when I've checked with the wife!:D
     
    North Yorks Red, Jan 21, 2022
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    I'll disagree with you on that one. Don't try and nothing will ever be achieved.
     
    Redhelen, Jan 21, 2022
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    If good men did nothing Evil would prevail for infinity .
     
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    Look at the expeditionary forces efforts in the Norwegian Fjords.
     
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    It all depends where you draw the line. I really don't like falling out with people (face to face, not so much online). But I remember getting in touch with a woman I used to work with back in the early 80s (through LinkedIn) a few years ago. Anyway she posted a eulogy to the evil one (I think it was the anniversary of Thatcher's death) so I felt compelled to post a message putting a slightly different point of view. Anyway she's blanked me ever since. I certainly wouldn't have said anything like I did to her face, I would have just changed the subject. On the other hand, when my sister-in-law started a conversation by saying "I don't want to talk politics but isn't Boris Johnson doing a great job" last autumn, I found it very hard not to explode.
     
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    Not quite how i expected this thread to pan out
     
    Duntpasstome, Jan 21, 2022
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    Wetherspoons Ruddles bitter was £1.59 a pint last time I went in there (last year sometime).
     
    Brush, Jan 21, 2022
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    Yeah I thought I might end up there. Ironically, the ethics associated with buying ale from Wetherspoons are arguably worse than the original principle itself! :)
     
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