It simply never occurs to him that those with whom he clashed during the tempests of the l960's and early 70's could likewise have been following the convictions of their minds, however flawed and misguided they might appear to him.
"It makes me feel like society doesn't see me as an independent person, a young woman travelling, working and in a rush to get to places just like everyone else - they see me as someone who must be struggling". Some responded to Ms Berg's tweet to suggest that, while their actions may be misguided, people might just be trying to help.
The terrorists invoke their faith and its most potent symbols and teachings, however misguided they might be.
To have withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, leveled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer; and to have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas — wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now — without corruption — I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness, worthy for the argument of history to settle.
"To have withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, leveled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer; and to have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas – wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now – without corruption – I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness, worthy for the argument of history to settle.
Some people say he was a coward for not enlisting, but I think it took some seriously heavy balls to do what he did, however misguided his actions might have been.
So I started thinking about how some very misguided person might mimic mine, the things it might be useful to know before embarking on a transatlantic journey of public drunkenness and sexual misfortune.
In reading the letters to Leibniz, it is helpful to remember that the views being defended might not belong only to Clarke or only to Newton, so attribution to a single figure might be misguided.
No matter what these misguided people might believe, that was an act of fanatical craziness.
Is this simply because it is misguided, or might it somehow be a brilliant strategy, just poorly articulated and badly implemented by inept managers?
