Maybe Scott meant to ask who your favorite executed/assassinated person from history is.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑August 24th, 2021, 4:58 pm As a list of criminals, this leaves a lot to be desired. The choices should have been along the lines of Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jesse James, etc.
Who is your favorite criminal from history?
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It depends if by favorite, one means most entertaining vs most admired.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑August 24th, 2021, 4:58 pm As a list of criminals, this leaves a lot to be desired. The choices should have been along the lines of Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jesse James, etc.
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Probably Eve.Scott wrote: ↑February 16th, 2021, 4:17 pm Who is your favorite criminal from history? Why?
Do you also think that person was the most heroic criminal from history? If not, who do you think was the most heroic criminal from history?
If you were put in the same or very similar circumstances as these criminals, would you hope to make the same choices as some or all of these criminals? Why or why not? What role does bravery play in your answer, meaning in your hypothetical choice about whether or not to follow in the criminal footsteps of these criminals? In other words, if you were hypothetically a much more courageous person how would that change your answer if at all?
Hell no, I'd just stay in paradise and do as I was told.
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Since the above quoted post, the following additional nominations have been made for favorite criminal:Scott wrote: ↑February 18th, 2021, 6:39 pm To summarize the additional suggestions to add to our list of possible favorite criminals, I noted these nominations:
DB Cooper, nominated by @HJCarden
Spartacus, nominated by @Sculptor1
Johannes Kepler and his mum, nominated by @Steve3007
Georges-Jacques Danton, nominated by @LuckyR
If I missed any other nominations, let me know!
I also asked a similar question on Twitter and recieved the following additional suggestions of criminals via Twitter:
- Jesse James
- Dr OYENUSI
- Bridget Bishop
Finally, while I didn't include him in the original poll, I think Henry David Thoreau deserves a mention, especially considering he is literally the author of Civil Disobedience.
Count Lucanor wrote: ↑February 18th, 2021, 8:12 pmIt's a tough pick. To my mind come now Giordano Bruno or Che Guevara. Why? They showed courage when pursuing the right causes.
Fellowmater wrote: ↑August 23rd, 2021, 7:23 am Not heroic but I think he's cool. Pablo Escobar raided the supreme court with tanks and destroyed evidence against him he got the country to let him build his own prison because they feared him, no one even comes close to don Pablo. Please don't judge me.
Any other names that would be good to add to the list?
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Julien Assange
Walter Benjamin
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I voted for John Brown in the poll. Cloudsplitter (Russell Banks) is a great novelization of his life and it left me in a dark funk for weeks after reading it.
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And Edward Snowden, of course.
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so i nominate anna politkovskaya, and alexej nawalny.
That philosophy otherwise takes up that bad habit of popular western culture, of inverting morality, by validating, or cultifying, or euphemizing true criminals and evil villains (like hitler, pablo escobar, and marilyn manson), to make that bad habit good, by turning it into a satire, as i understand this thread to the widest degree, is honorable.
That's a critical point, because it helps to publicly impart a true sense and purpose of public philosophy, to cultivate a positive, constructive method.
Such methods, like satire, help to approach the matter of socio-moral distortion.
In german society, the inversion of morality, be it seriously or satirically and ironically, and the compilation of "favourite movie villain" hitlists is unusual, although its being understood usually, as logic under inverted precursors. So, at my place, Nawalny, Douglass, Sokrates and Politkovskaya would not be considered criminals, not even jokingly.
Scott, in your "Does Society need Prisons ?"-Thread, i intend to count the times you put the term "criminal" into direct relation with the term " compassion". I know, its a decent amount of suggestive connections, for a political cause, and i strongly dislike the question, of whether it is good, or necessary, to deal with legal matters under such contradictory terms like "criminals, who have to be treated compassionate", or "favourite criminal", because i strongly like satire.
anyways, not everybody shares my sense of satire.
You argue, that Nawalny ain't history ? I defy you: He's gonna write it !
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I am a little confused. Do you consider Navalny a criminal? If not, why is he your choice? If so, how is he substantively different from Georges-Jacques Danton, Frederick Douglas or Che Guevara?Oliver Krieger wrote: ↑September 25th, 2022, 10:56 am Do we ironically value legal provisions, and decisions which put our true heroes at a disadvantage ? I suggest, that we continue to do that, but also keep in mind in which places they currently suffer most.
so i nominate anna politkovskaya, and alexej nawalny.
That philosophy otherwise takes up that bad habit of popular western culture, of inverting morality, by validating, or cultifying, or euphemizing true criminals and evil villains (like hitler, pablo escobar, and marilyn manson), to make that bad habit good, by turning it into a satire, as i understand this thread to the widest degree, is honorable.
That's a critical point, because it helps to publicly impart a true sense and purpose of public philosophy, to cultivate a positive, constructive method.
Such methods, like satire, help to approach the matter of socio-moral distortion.
In german society, the inversion of morality, be it seriously or satirically and ironically, and the compilation of "favourite movie villain" hitlists is unusual, although its being understood usually, as logic under inverted precursors. So, at my place, Nawalny, Douglass, Sokrates and Politkovskaya would not be considered criminals, not even jokingly.
Scott, in your "Does Society need Prisons ?"-Thread, i intend to count the times you put the term "criminal" into direct relation with the term " compassion". I know, its a decent amount of suggestive connections, for a political cause, and i strongly dislike the question, of whether it is good, or necessary, to deal with legal matters under such contradictory terms like "criminals, who have to be treated compassionate", or "favourite criminal", because i strongly like satire.
anyways, not everybody shares my sense of satire.
You argue, that Nawalny ain't history ? I defy you: He's gonna write it !
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"I am a little confused. Do you consider Navalny a criminal? If not, why is he your choice? If so, how is he substantively different from Georges-Jacques Danton, Frederick Douglas or Che Guevara? "
As i just wrote, not everybody shares my sense of irony, and satire.
I consider their reflection, as means of public philosophy, to approach phenomena like fate, conviction, and injustice, coupled with morality and heroism, as honorable, and the inversion of morality to be necessary, especially in societies, who suffer from vast prison-populations, weaponization of communication, distribution of weapons, and prevalence of crime. given these severe societal conditions, philosophy sure got a hell of a hard time, to make everything right.
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I hadn't heard of it before. I'll add that movie to my to-watch list!
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DB Cooper
Spartacus
Johannes Kepler and his mum
Georges-Jacques Danton
Jesse James
Dr OYENUSI
Bridget Bishop
Henry David Thoreau (author of Civil Disobedience)
Galileo
Thomas Paine
Giordano Bruno
Che Guevara
Frederick Douglass
Chelsea Manning
Julien Assange
Walter Benjamin
Edward Snowden
Hypatia
Any other suggestions for favorite criminals?
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Gandhi was never imprisoned until WWII. The British Raj was unthreatened by his pacifism until it seemed an inappropriate response to the threat of Japanese invasion. Then his preaching was deemed dangerous.
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