"Appeasement means giving people what they want to prevent them from harming you or being angry with you."
Exactly. Backing down instead of acting from a position of strength, no respect gained by doing that.
"He had a real sense of fairness and hated injustice"
If only the world was like that.
Exactly. Backing down instead of acting from a position of strength, no respect gained by doing that.
"He had a real sense of fairness and hated injustice"
If only the world was like that.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche