Napoleon Ier wrote:
Well now Jucdor old bean I'd say that's a rather unfair accusation, I may not be terribly aged and wizened but I certainly don't view situations ads black and white. Feel free to present any evidence for this from my posts if you want to though, i'd be delighted to discuss it with you.
Hmmm... I give you that that you didn't get offended by my remark even though it was first time I made a slightly sarcastic remark on you. Good for you and I mean it without any hypocrisy or slandering.
On your questions though I tried to look for few familiar posts you've made recently, but it seems you're way too active in this forum for me so I'll go by the memory. Economics: Free trade is the divine way to go and wellfare state has no positive sides what so ever and it only makes people lazy. Or history is absolute, there is constantly "The Single Truth(TM)" to be found as in what French heritage is measured, what it consists of and so forth. I remember you writing like it was something you could measure in a cup.
I don't want to derail this from the original topic, but history was my major in university and I can say that for example things like existance of Jesus isn't that solidly prooved. There's only three mentions about him in historical sources, but they could just as well talk about three different people. I mention this to level with the discussion on French heritage. Although Charles the Great indeed was great, we mainly know that because he happened to have a historian in his court. Which is why we know about Charles who couldn't read himself, but we don't know that much about his rivals. Which on turn should reflect how absolute truths you can have about Gauls and French. I mean in Finland there's constant debate on our civil war and that was only a hundred years ago, not a thousand years ago. We could talk what archeology can tell which is a lot, but that's another story.
On economics, the closest we've ever been to a free trade isn't nowadays, but in 19th century - you know the period when it was ok for small children to work in the mines for 12 hours a day to profit the mine owners. On the other hand if we remove the indiviual from the chance to profit from his work then efficiency is lost - so indeed the truth again is somewhere in the middle - how to support the people to have a chance to make their lives better and how to limit them as little as possible.
But mainly my black & white accusation was due to your tendency to resort to insults if someone doesn't agree with you or if someone hasn't understood what you meant. However as I said here you showed a true charachter for not pissing off by my bad words and if we kept talking like this then I would end up with a bad reputation instead of you. So keep it up like that.
For the rest of you - sorry for going off-topic.
