Do you find the Tale of Arthur Kavanagh the limbless,yauchtsman,painter,writer and MP inspirational in this present era?

It is inspirational until you read that he was born into privilege and wealth. Would be far more insipiring if he was the son of a collier and a scullery maid.

@zenvelo
Yes it was fortunate that he was born into nobility but perhaps he was supposed to in order to change the world in a more possitive way through his deeds as a result of it?

”...perhaps he was supposed to…”

So the rest of us our doomed to a life of drudgery and meaninglessness because we don;t have any genetic defects? Was he having sex with every woman he met a way of teaching women to be more accepting of those with disabilities?

I don’t get how he “changed” the world.

So it’s sort of sounding like the answer is no . . . sorry, @Inspired_2write. I too fail to see how his circumstances are “direst” compared with people who live homeless and starving in places where warfare and violence and filth and noise never cease.

Also I have my doubts about a source that writes “Arthur became the sole air to his family’s estate.” Even without the flippant moral at the end.

And I have no doubt he frequented prostitutes a LOT. hardly world changing.

Just because there was a misspelling in the link the OP provided doesn’t mean Kavanagh’s story isn’t inspiring. At a time in Ireland’s history when most landlords were throwing people out to be homeless if they couldn’t pay the rent, this guy showed compassion and provided them with food. He certainly was inspiring to the people of the day and I do think that people with money and power could take a lesson from his life.

We have people like that today as well- folks who have overcome tremendous challenges that would dismay most other people. Maybe you won’t agree with their philosophy or their personal habits, but there should be something positive or inspiring that you could take away from reading about their life.

What misspelling?

Probably my mention of this: “Arthur became the sole air to his family’s estate.” – it doesn’t look like a misspelling to me. It looks like not knowing any better.

A better written article might have had a more uplifting effect.

Oh. “Heir.” Took me forever to catch that.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sole

Correct spelling.

Definition of sole (Entry 1 of 4)
1a: being the only one
she was her mother’s sole support
b: having no sharer
2: functioning independently and without assistance or interference
let conscience be the sole judge
3: belonging exclusively or otherwise limited to one usually specified individual, unit, or group
4: not married —used chiefly of women
5archaic : having no companion : SOLITARY

Imagine a person with out limbs and then imagine this in his time period.
Don’t begrudge him for going to prostitutes since no women would have him.
He had to over come many difficulties yet he used his intelligence to help others profoundly changing their lives for the better.
Why in the world woul anyone her discredit him?
Did some of you not read the whold article?

heir ( oxford dictionary)
/er/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person’s death.
“his eldest son and heir”
Similar:
successor
heiress
next in line
inheritor
heir apparent
heir presumptive
heir-at-law
descendant
beneficiary
legatee
scion
devisee
grantee
parcener
coparcener
heritor

Published April 1, 2020 Written by seamusvhanratty
wrote that article.

Apparently the only acceptable answer to the original question was yes. Sorry, I guess some of us thought it was okay to give a true answer.

It was the last line, the belligerent in-your-face challenge, that really put me off.

Oh, the last line that says, “Now what’s your excuse?” I scarcely noticed it.

@kneesox
Lets be clear here….I did NOT write that article!
Someone else did and your rude assumption is in excusable.
I have flagged you because of your reply.
It is so bad when some here instead of taking away the meaning of a life of a frail man who overcame his difficulties of being born with no limbs that the ONLY take away is to find faults in the spelling and his cavorting with women as his only means of getting love.
Some here are judging on present day standards not 18th century standards .
That true story was meant to uplift and give hope to those in seemingly hopless situations.
Seems a few have missed that point all together to instead to destroy that meaning and worse it shows lack of insight.

@Inspired_2write the misspelling was the word “air” instead of “heir.”
“Sole” was not misspelled.

@Dutchess_III
Yes I know that after I posted it.