Greg Lukianoff
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Hopefully by now we understand.
that good people aren't always right and bad people aren't always wrong.
I mean, like it or not, people with truly awful beliefs have made massive contributions.
Take Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist, goddess to the moon, also Nazi.
Or take Genghis Khan, absolutely spectacular for trade routes,
But, or take someone like Thomas Malthus, reportedly a kind and thoughtful man.
But his ideas on overpopulation actually were used to justify famines and mass sterilization.
Or take another Thomas, Thomas More, great intellectual and literal saint who also burned people to death.
But morality and accuracy don't always line up.
So I want you guys to do a little exercise with me.
Participation time.
Participation time.
So please look at your neighbor and repeat after me.
Just because I hate your guts doesn't mean you're wrong.
Just because I hate your guts doesn't mean you're wrong.
Thank you so much.
Okay, okay.
I know nobody hates each other at TED.