Alan Turing

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Defo. I've read various books on Bletchley and he was a key part of that. Although attitudes may have been different then it was horrendous the way he was treated for something he just simply was.
 
Incredible man. I really enjoyed the lectures we had on him in uni.

But I really don't see the point in a posthumous pardon.
 
Been to BP, he was what inspired me to work in crypto.
 

The father of modern computing. Kinda shows the ficklness of people I guess. I mean it was Churchill and his government that turned a blind eye to the whole issue at the time Turing was being prosecuted. Where would we be as a country if he wasn't driven to take his life?

The way guys like Turing and Wilde were treated, and of course the many more that weren't so well known, was awful for a so called liberal country.
 
Jesus. Scary to think they were chemically castrating people for being gay as recently as the 50s.
 
Terrible, giving him a posthumous pardon won't erase what was done by the govt back then though in fact it will only highlight how wrong they were, so I don't get this what's the point view.

I ask those with the what's done is done, let it remain there as a mark of shame attitude.... should our Nation have never issued apologies to the people of foreign lands that we persecuted ?

Australian Aboriginies & NZ Maori to name but 2 ?

Should the Catholic Church have not Apologised to Children Abused & used as slaves?

South Africa for Apartheid ?

Germany for.... well, quite a lot ?

Should the survivors of Japanese POW camps just let it lie ?

It may not seem important to you but that's because it doesn't concern/affect you, have some thought for those that it did and indeed still does.
 

Winston Smith said:
It's a way of the government to publicly admit they made a terrible mistake.
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I don't really think modern governments have the right to take responsibility for previous government's actions -- especially when we're talking half a decade ago, or even longer.
 
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I don't really think modern governments have the right to take responsibility for previous government's actions -- especially when we're talking half a decade ago, or even longer.
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Exactly. What happened is gone, and long gone at that. It is not the responsibility of today's generation to assume that they can apologise for things that happened before they were born....
 

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