"When someone achieves greatness in any field-such as the arts, science, politics, or business-that person’s achievements are more important than any of his or her personal faults."
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
It is said that to err is human. Under normal circumstances total perfection does not exist. We all have our flaws. It can be summed with the classic story of asking the first stone be cast by the one who has not sinned. In the end we are all human. Hence pinning attention on somebody's personal faults and conveniently glossing over the person's achievements is not fair to the person. It does not help the society either.
Most of the time it is mediocrity trying to pull back greatness in guise of personal attacks. People who can do things do them. The rest talk, criticize, plan or judge.Despite of all such attacks greatness is capable of leaving its unique stamp on the face of the earth. Still such attacks can hamper the speed of such people. Hence an attitude of not attacking personal faults can help the advancement of various fields.
The best example I can think of is Mozart. As a person many of his contemporaries described him as a shallow, skirt-chasing individual. That cannot take away the fact that he is one of the greatest composers of our time. Most people do not remember who he was, what he did and what were his intentions. Yet his work lives to date inspiring people with its sheer genius. If people had been more considerate at his time, may be he would have lived longer and contributed to the field of music.
Concluding, I strongly agree that personal faults can never be as important as greatness. We all have our faults and it is unfair to single out an achiever for having one.
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