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Everyone has good and bad attributes. If you’re expecting anyone to be 100% good you’ll be disappointed.

I’m still a fan because he seems about 90% right on his opinions and he’s doing amazing work.

Man but the bad 10% is so rough. The Thai diver situation wasn't some off the cuff rant, that was someone wealthy and influential in concerted effort to utterly destroy someone who had done some good in the world. Intellectual genius but moral void can still apparently be admirable?

I wouldn't call it a moral void. Heroes are better and worse than ordinary people, it's unfortunate that we've been raised on simplistic stories where if someone is worth being on a side with they can't have any significant flaws.

I fully recognize that people exist in shades of gray.

However, I also believe that there are actions that people can and do take that put them beyond what contrition could repair-- and Musk hasn't publicly apologized for this, even.

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