@boing Once a person is dead their name is meaningless other than what it represents for those who are alive and wish to commemorate it. If it represents a moral ideal, then that's all it is. If you want to go out of your way to prove that said specific person was a piece of shit, while they are otherwise remembered as perfect, that's not about said specific person that's about you. You want to defy the ideal, for no other reason than to show that all are imperfect. People define perfection in order to strive for it, and personifying it makes it more compelling. If humble, one'll never think to have achieved it or even represent it, otherwise, even defiant, one would think of themselves as perfect, with the imperfections of others only helping to lower the "standard" to strive for, so at the end it is irrelevant whether you give dead people a god-like status or not. What you are arguing against is hubris, and I imagine it takes a lot of it to demand a renaming of a street.