• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    8 months ago

    No one said it was absolution. As was obviously stated, it means he’s better than others.

    But sure binary thinking is the best. either he is good or bad, either his charity is meaningless or completely erases any bad he ever did.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      8 months ago

      Hardly anyone is all good or all bad. But with any billionaire ever, the bad will always outweigh the good because of what monumental injustice was necessary to collect a billion dollars.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        8 months ago

        I don’t really agree but even if so, there still are degrees of wrong doing. Gates has helped to eradicate disease but to many in this thread that means literally nothing because of their binary thinking