You're both being dogmatic. Steveklabnik is claiming that Carnegie could've done more to be an ethical leader, Axiom is claiming that he couldn't.
The truth is, both are possible. I am baffled as to how either of you thinks the question can be answered without looking at the specific history and the specific choices Carnegie made and deciding whether he was willfully destroying lives.
Please see my response, which is a sibling to you. I'm being dogmatic on purpose, responding to the tone of TFA.
I think Carnegie was kind of a jerk, but if he hadn't done it, some other jerk probably would have. I try not to spend too much of my life casting moral judgements on others, so I'm still not quite how sure that shakes out.
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You're both being dogmatic. Steveklabnik is claiming that Carnegie could've done more to be an ethical leader, Axiom is claiming that he couldn't.
The truth is, both are possible. I am baffled as to how either of you thinks the question can be answered without looking at the specific history and the specific choices Carnegie made and deciding whether he was willfully destroying lives.
Please see my response, which is a sibling to you. I'm being dogmatic on purpose, responding to the tone of TFA.
I think Carnegie was kind of a jerk, but if he hadn't done it, some other jerk probably would have. I try not to spend too much of my life casting moral judgements on others, so I'm still not quite how sure that shakes out.