XRP can still be successful and good even though it's not as noble as Bitcoin.
I sympathise with your conciliatory sentiments, but what is it about Bitcoin that strikes you as nobler than Ripple?
The lack of a 100% pre-mine for starters? I don't see why RealSolid is forever marked a scammer for pre-mining a million SolidCoins while OpenCoin gets away with pre-mining 100 billion XRP. Somebody explain this to me.