If someone saw your name on the list, they would treat you differently, walk on eggshells around you. It could/would potentially create a negative image of you in all kinds of people around you, including those who sign your paycheck, decide if you get a raise, prepare your food at restaurants, etc.
Discovering a continent is something that you can logically assume would happen. Likewise the wheel. Electric lights? Those took some serious thinking. Computers? They would've come around eventually, but perhaps in a drastically different way.
Naming something after someone who came up with the idea doesn't accredit them as being the only person ever (before, now, later) to possibly be able to think of it. It just means that they did first. It's just like a patenting system - you get credit for your idea, but you let other people use it too, if it suits you.
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If someone saw your name on the list, they would treat you differently, walk on eggshells around you. It could/would potentially create a negative image of you in all kinds of people around you, including those who sign your paycheck, decide if you get a raise, prepare your food at restaurants, etc.
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Discovering a continent is something that you can logically assume would happen. Likewise the wheel. Electric lights? Those took some serious thinking. Computers? They would've come around eventually, but perhaps in a drastically different way.
Naming something after someone who came up with the idea doesn't accredit them as being the only person ever (before, now, later) to possibly be able to think of it. It just means that they did first. It's just like a patenting system - you get credit for your idea, but you let other people use it too, if it suits you.