Juno_Watt comments on How to Build a Community - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Juno_Watt 25 May 2013 02:12:27PM 4 points [-]

Pinochet. He was an asshole who engaged in war crimes and gross violations of human rights but he turned Chile from a country where those crimes were standard into a country where he could step down and be charged by the government he created with those crimes.

Ermm...so he stared doing bad things, then he stopped, and that makes him good? Those crimes weren't standard before he was in power, and he had to stop because of a shift in policy by the US, not by his own volition. And he managed to evade punishment for his crimes. So why is he so great again?

Comment author: OrphanWilde 25 May 2013 04:14:29PM 1 point [-]

We have a tendency to forget the crimes of revolutionary forces while remembering the crimes of those they are revolting against.

The descendants of the comment you're responding to elaborate a little bit more on why I regard him as more good than evil.