He has adequately validated his viewpoint.
Only to the choir, a choir of one I might add.
toward a character that has behaved nobly in his efforts to offer benefits to his clients, who harbors no ill feelings to anyone, and has caused harm to none.
You have a strange sense of nobility, methinks. Here we have a guy who wants to do things his way. I, for one, am content to leave him alone to do that, libertarian soul that I am. I like being left alone to do my thing, too, without interference from a world that sometimes spins in a different direction from mine.
But no, that's not enough for him. He wants everyone to 1) change their spin to get in step with him and 2) to thank him for the privilege of being in the presence of such nobility, to boot. It never occurs to him that he has some accommodating to do, too, or at least an obligation to listen in good faith to the issues presented by those in the mainstream. Here's a guy who thinks nothing of having the government set up a multi-million, maybe multi-billion dollar bureaucracy just so that he can petition to evade the rules. Sounds selfish, self-indulgent, and spoiled to me. Nobility? Baloney!
I often argue with Neo that the majority has an obligation to show magnanimity to the minority. He slaps me around every time I suggest that. It's up to the minority to fit in, he says. And so says most everyone. Well, I disagree. As a result, I've been trying mightily to listen actively and get into this guy's head, with some success, I might add, in order to find a win for him against great odds. And what do I get from you for my trouble? Disgust? Thanks a bunch. |
