“We havent walked in his shoes, and we werent there to see what took place.”
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We haven’t walked in ANYONE”s shoes,but that still does not excuse rudeness.
Aldrin was not dragged kicking and screaming to MIT,he chose to go. He could have stayed home.
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Right. It doesn’t excuse it, but it can engender forbearance in specific situations.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with exercising that forbearance in those situations.
You apparently feel differently.
By the way, were you at MIT when he was there?
With Buzz, I'll give him all kinds of credit for putting his life on the line, literally, by being an astronaut. Buzz was 3rd in his class at Westpoint. He was a combat pilot, then he went and got a Ph.D. from MIT. I'll give Buzz all kinds of Kudos for that, he was definitely one of the sharper knives in the drawer everywhere he went. But none of that excuses bad behavior and acting like you're better than everybody. Far from it.