Post by Radrook Admin on Jul 8, 2022 12:17:52 GMT -5
President Zelensky is just a comedian?
The president of the Ukraine, Zelensky, was formerly a professional comedian. So whenever he is criticized, his former profession as a comedian is often mentioned as if it were detrimental to his performance as the president of the Ukraine. Now, this premise, or assumption, strikes me as rather totally unjustifiable and therefor irrational. Why? Well, because it postulates that certain former professions are detrimental to anyone wanting to be successful as a politician. In short, a cause and effect between them is proposed. Yet, absolutely no reason is provided as to why any humble former former profession should hinder person's newest one.
For example, why should we assume that an acrobat, a butcher, a farmer, a dishwasher, a taxi cab driver, a janitor, are all inevitably handicapped by their former jobs when they assume the office of mayor, governor, or president? Better yet, do we indeed have irrefutable evidence that persons who have held such jobs perform worse than those who haven't?
No, there is absolutely no evidence of such a cause and effect relationship between prior professions to being a president and presidential performance in office. Quite to contrary, persons holding such positions have proven as capable and even more capable than those did not. Example? OK! Consider the following:
Abraham Lincoln, who had once been a professional bartender performed well under a very difficult presidential term. Another USA president, Jimmy Carter, had been a peanut-farmer, and he wasn't hindered. Another was Ronald Reagan, who had been a movie-actor. Nothing unusually bad that we cant trace to his acting career. Of course, all were human and made mistakes. But such mistakes cannot be logically attributed as linked to their former profession
So is there indeed any evidence that having had a humble profession prior to holding a prominent political office is detrimental to the cogent reasoning which is necessary in order to govern a country wisely? Absolutely not!
BTW
Should we consider a profession that demands that we have a god sense o humor and exception? Well, in order to do so we would need to demonstrate how a good sense of humor and skill in conveying it interfere with human reasoning abilities in relation to politics. Can anyone do this? Has anyone done this? Has any study ever proven that to be the case? Of course not. Ability to se the humorous side of things has absolutely no bearing on our ability to perform other jobs. In fact, that's like saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger was not qualified to govern California because of having been a former bodybuilder. It just simply doesn't follow and is just sheer nonsense.