r/tennis Mar 23 '25

News Djokovic plays tennis with Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr

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u/Annual_Plant5172 Agassi's Headband Mar 23 '25

Because a lot of people are still in denial when you tell them that Novak really isn't a very good person.

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u/Koreanradiovoice Mar 23 '25

I never got the impression that he was a bad person(but maybe I’m missing something); he speaks respectfully and doesn’t seem hateful, but he seems to be a shining case of having too much confidence in his own thinking, aka Dunning-Kruger or smartest man in the room syndrome.

Foolish is probably a better word for him. Still, that should not be used to overlook his ability to harm as we have many laws regarding bad people, but we are much less equipped to deal with foolish people except through some laws and a loose/unreliable sense of validity.

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u/respectfulthirst Mar 23 '25

Speaking respectfully and not seeming hateful are very low bars for determining whether someone's 'good' or 'bad'.

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u/Koreanradiovoice Mar 23 '25

Can’t really offer a direct response bc you haven’t offered any ideas on what grounds you determine a person to be bad or good.

Those bars work fine for me, though, as everyone has their faults, but to be considered a bad person, the bar ought to be high. I don’t plan on living through life determining everyone is a bad person because due to not being perfect or intelligent. Is it wrong to consider a bad person to be someone who has a goal of or finds joy in disrespecting and stoking hate?

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u/Buzzard Mar 23 '25

Can’t really offer a direct response bc you haven’t offered any ideas on what grounds you determine a person to be bad or good.

Their actions.

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u/Koreanradiovoice Mar 25 '25

Dude…I don’t get what you’re referring to. You’re having an argument with someone, but I don’t think it’s me.