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The son forgiving his father doesn’t make him a good father.

Good fathers don’t need to reconcile in the first place.

I don’t know what your weird beef is here, but abandoning your son to do something incredibly pointless is selfish and terrible parenting.

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"My weird beef" is hoping people will talk about Bushby's walk, which is legendary in overland travel circles and full of interesting details of local people, local customs, geography and geology, instead of trying to turn this into yet another social-media harangue of a person's personal flaws. What the man saw on his walk would probably be more interesting for a community of intellectual curiosity like HN (and look at dang's response above) than the man himself.

Sorry I don’t see it the same way. I don’t see a hero or admirable life’s work. He spent his life choosing himself over others.

Again, there is more to talk about than the man himself or his walk as his personal "life's work" . The regions he moved through, things like the Darien Gap in the early millennium, are often of great interest to the HN crowd, and these facts are discussed in the coverage of his walk.

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