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To: elmatador who wrote (58681)12/5/2009 2:55:39 PM
From: prometheus197613 Recommendations  Respond to of 217749
 
Well,i am not the one to play Mr Christian to your Captain Bligh,but i do recall the captain ending up in a much smaller craft than he began,and in unhappier circumstances....

If only he had treated his crew more thoughtfully.Perhaps had he backed off of a poor decision,his story would not be a parable enduring for centuries.

I wonder if years down the road,you will still be discussed on SI. "If only Elmat had..."

my regards,P1976

"[Bligh made] dogmatic judgements which he felt himself entitled to make; he saw fools about him too easily... thin-skinned vanity was his curse through life... [Bligh] never learnt that you do not make friends of men by insulting them."