Letter: Trump critics should listen to Gandhi, too

Ted Takamiya referred to “Gandhi’s seven sins” (“Hearing was ‘politics without principles’,” Star-Advertiser, Oct. 13). While widely acknowledged as originating from an Anglican priest named Frederick Lewis Donaldson, each one — wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice; politics without principles — is an excellent tenet to build and hone one’s moral character, regardless of the source.

However, since each one of those seven points require subjective evaluation based upon personal opinion, rather than definitive metrics extending from observable facts, they do not lend themselves well to judgments upon, or being “applied to,” other people. They are aspects an individual would use for internal assessment and inventorying.

Yet without having any way of knowing the mind of our president, while obviously having some unflattering opinions about him based on who knows what, Takamiya categorically declares Donald Trump to be a failure “in most, if not all, categories.”

Doesn’t that seem to be inconsistent with one or more of those principles?

Jim Wolery

Kaneohe

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