A tweet (cried reading the obit). Amazing guy, amazing thing he did:

@kevinmeyers
Holy shit what an obit: Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children from the Holocaust http://nyti.ms/1R4Xrd2

Inspiring Amy. Simply inspiring.

Shame most of our kids/young adults know nothing of this and other heroic endeavors by regular folk.

Note that no gov't actually helped w/o his initiative. Only money in the right hands and the willingness to do what was needed (fabricate gov't documents if necessary).

I could say some really negative things about our current leaders, the NAACP, and others but ...

“One saw the problem there, that a lot of these children were in danger, and you had to get them to what was called a safe haven, and there was no organization to do that. Why did I do it? Why do people do different things. Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.”

We need more of him, but alas, too few appear. I do believe it is much more than taking risks. In his core he had a value of life and an opinion of right and wrong. He acted accordingly. Tough thing to do.

From Reason: The Future of Sex is Terrifying.

Begin with an unproven assumption: "Because the harm of erroneously presuming willingness in such cases vastly outweighs the harm of erroneously presuming unwillingness," get a Kafkaesque conclusion.

Not only is that assumption unproven, it becomes blatantly false under the proposed laws.