Can Good Ideas Come From Flawed People? | Tuttle Twins |

[@dustinabc]

All ideas come from flawed people. And it's not just that "bad people" can have good ideas or create good things, we can learn important lessons from bad things as well. Like when a bad thing is done or a lie is told, we can sense the difference between that and good & truth, which better helps us to understand and recognize the difference, and can motivate new good ideas.

[@trailgrazer2241]

Yeah, kind of like how there are statues of Confederate Leaders in the south but there's controversy about removing them. Some people want to remove them and replace them with "acceptable" figures, but others believe keeping them there is a good way to learn from history. Seeing these statues, provoking conversations, research, and learning about who they were helps you see and learn from their mistakes. It's not meant to celebrate them for being jerks.

[@jillevers1432]

I love this episode and lesson. Helps me with understand the stars these days

[@markdorn8873]

Am important point: we live in a fallen world, and there are no perfect people to draw inspiration from.

[@LivingCrusader]

Except Jesus Christ.

[@markdorn8873]

@@LivingCrusader Except Jesus Christ, correct.

[@IanRomErv]

@@LivingCrusaderThat’s because he’s the second person of the Trinity.

[@TickedOffPriest]

Poor Ethan. I am sure that you will grow into your hands.

[@acctsys]

Take the wheat, throw the chaff. Good ideas stand on their own merit, not relying on the popularity of its proponents. Still, keep in mind that choices are more tradeoffs than they are solutions.

[@starsine9062]

Yes, as everyone is fallen and life is extremely messy. But the distinction is when flawed individuals, who were initially seen as trying to do good, are then exposed as intentionally undermining or vindictively destroying the very things they proclaim to uphold for ideological purposes unbeknownst to everyone in society. Only to exposed later on. The mythology machine.

[@ExpensivePizza]

The only wrong answer is deleting people and ideas from history forever. We can learn just as much from humanities mistakes as we do from the good ideas. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." --- Wednesday Addams

[@bartgnirk1125]

Was awesome to meet a few of you at Bitcoin 2024! Keep up the great work!!!

[@AtarahDerek]

Funniest line in the whole series is Ethan calling Ben Franklin "unproblematic." Especially since they've met him. But to he clear, he wasn't an absent father. He was actually a very good father. A bad husband, yes, but a good father. Bill went tory because of his mommy issues, not daddy issues.

[@eliasgorman829]

Franklin did abandon his sister though

[@AtarahDerek]

@@eliasgorman829 Franklin abandoned his entire natal family. They weren't terribly broken up about it when he left home at 17 to get away from his brother's abuse.

[@colleenodriscoll8914]

Thank you thank you THANK YOU creators for making this. We need this especially today, so we can see the flaw with cancel culture

[@Jackson72947]

Ben Franklin didn't like democracy (mob rule) that's why he helped set up a Constitutional Republic. There's a great 11 minute video video on KZbin by Dan Smoot about America as a Constitutional Republic

[@TickedOffPriest]

True. But they do have to simplify things for a kdi's show.

[@ExpensivePizza]

Thank you for providing a reference.

[@korradog81]

❤

[@EvanTLewis]

If liberals, conservatives, libertarians, independents accused people they don’t like of being flawed, they have to accept that people they idolize are too flawed.

[@animebrat76]

😂 1:14 that little rascal

[@catsopi]

Comparing Regan to MLK is a really bad joke

[@jp-vega]

"I cheated on a test and broke my vows" vs "I caused a debt in the trillions and empowered criminals"

[@jillevers1432]

They are both men with lives outside their famous historical roles