I think it’s a healthy thing to do to admit when your wrong as it places importance on truth rather than self image.
Some examples:
I thought pay-per-view was paper-view because you had to fill out a form to watch it.
This morning I insisted there was a noise outside to my partner and it was in fact the refrigerant in the fridge gurgling.
I thought the cat wanted to be pet— it did not.
I’m an engineer. It’s my job to be wrong until I’m right.
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I’m bookmarking this
Yes, but all that schooling helps you to be wrong fewer times consecutively than an average person would be on matters that are within the narrow confines of your field… during regular working hours.
during regular working hours.
And generally after a couple cups of coffee, and before 4, and not during lunch, and not on Fridays.
I thought I was wrong, once. But I was mistaken.
I’m always right, especially when I’m wrong.
My grandfather used to say this all the time. He was such a humble man, too, so it always got a good “dad joke” chuckle. Glad to see it’s still out there.
I picked it up from an episode of Deep Space Nine. Good times.
I’m wrong all the time. My amazing ADHD lets me finish stories in my head when someone starts talking, and it never goes the adventurous amazing way my brain told me it was going to go.
There are a few controversial subjects I’ve changed my mind about recently, and it only happened because someone actually took the time to engage with me instead of just hurling insults and trying to shut down the discussion. I’m not even going to specify what I changed my mind about, because I know I’d just get attacked again - for views I don’t even hold anymore.
Thought isn’t a crime we all deserve the chance to grow
I was wrong about capital punishment up into my twenties. It took someone sitting me down and explaining it’s more expensive to kill people than just jail them for life (along with why). These days I’m a bit ashamed that that was the argument that convinced me but that was among a few key watershed moments that pulled back the veil and got me thinking and noticing that fiscal conservatives somehow didn’t ever seem to pick the most sensible option to achieve their goals—clearly their goals aren’t what they claim. They want to reduce abortion, but not in ways that actually work. They want to reduce crime, but not in ways that actually work. Fuck, they want to balance budgets, but not in ways that actually work.
We’re all on a journey, friend. And sometimes that’s especially hard online because the strides we take are often attacked for being insufficient. People demand total, instant realignment, and you’re still attacked for not believing it all along. I’m glad most of my journey was not made on social media because I’ve certainly held some regrettable positions.
Good luck!
I was super in favor of capital punishment until we had to do an essay on a controversial topic in my senior year of high school and as I was researching for it I was like “wait a minute this actually sucks ass.” Capital punishment kind of only “works” if your underlying assumption is that the justice system gets it right every time, which is not true at all. It also isn’t even a good deterrent- it makes no difference on capital crime rates whether the death penalty is a possibility or not. So the only reason to have it is that your own sense of “justice” requires criminals to be killed, even if it doesn’t actually help anything and even if it doesn’t prevent more crimes. And again, that denies any possibility that the justice system ever gets things wrong and wrongfully convicts someone.
Oh I was way shittier than that when I was younger. I mean I assumed they got it right almost every time and the couple of exceptions would be caught by appeals and such and it was such a vanishingly small number of actually innocent people that would be killed that it was an acceptable number.
That was before I saw stuff like proof people were innocent and DAs still fighting against them being released. It never occurred to me that expecting everyone in the justice system to seek real justice was completely naive of me. Of course police wouldn’t try to arrest someone they knew was innocent, and of course the DA wouldn’t prosecute and if they were ever made aware of a mistake, of course they would correct that immediately.
Turns out the world is largely made up of folks who genuinely don’t care if other people live or die or whether it’s right or wrong, as long as it doesn’t inconvenience them at all.
My argument against capital punishment is that no legal system is foolproof and some number of innocent people are going to get locked up no matter what. That is aready unacceptable in itself but the idea of sentencing someone to death who hasn’t done anything wrong is the greatest injustice I can think of.
Sure, I’m just saying falling short of perfection is not the argument that swayed me. It took me time to get there.
In 1992 I thought the GOP was being hyperbolic about Bill Clinton’s history of sexual predation. Im not proud of that.
In 1992 I thought the GOP cared about extra marital sexual activity. They do not.
Oh goodness, 24 years ago I was uninformed, narrowminded and had been brought up sheltered and rather conservative. So I used to be hugely trans- and homophobic. I wasn’t actively hurting or confronting anyone, but I was definitely a big part of the problem.
It actually was webcomics that deprogrammed me. That showed me a world I simply did not know but quickly felt empathy for. Those were normal, lovely people who simply existed differently from me, they weren’t a threat and they had so many struggles pushed on them only for being different.
Today I’m far-left, progressive, super empathetic, happy that a lesbian friend calls me “one of the good ones” and that I, as a huuuuuge white cis guy, can be an ally and create a safe space around me for everyone who needs it.
When I was a kid, I disliked trans people for the sole reason that as a biological woman I get periods and they didn’t, so my dumb shit brain thought they had it better.
I was also against gay people, but mostly because fortunately the people I were around were accepting people.
At least I had the excuse of being an insecure child; I can’t understand why some people are so hateful as adults though (I mean I never denied that I can also be hateful but at least I judge people based on moral principles and not BS)
I’m wrong all the time.
Just yesterday I was talking to a friend, mentioning that it is insane how it was only a few years ago that a province in my country removed the rule that all government buildings need to have a christian cross on the wall.
Turns out the conservatives successfully fought that change and it’s still mandatory.
It’s impossible to be correct 100% of the time
This sounds like Bavaria :D
Correct!
I misspelled Denuvo earlier and two people had to be jerks about it.
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I didn’t realize “banal” was pronounced “ban all” and cluelessly described something as “b-anal”
Well that must have been a pain in the butt
Now start pronouncing the word “testicles” like it is an ancient Greek name with a long second e sound. You will NEVER stop.
I didn’t realize “banal” was pronounced “ban all”
😶
I was today years old…
Both pronunciations are okay :)
I recently thought geese just ate bugs in the grass and even said so, but apparently they graze on the grass. I admitted my mistake when I found out a couple days later.
I’ve never had a geese-observation opportunity but now I know they eat grass and the bugs in it, so thanks!
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Same, and I also thought Kamala would win because our voters couldn’t possibly be dumb enough to elect the dipshit fascist again after how badly it went the first time and how he was talking about all the awful shit he’d do.
I was wrong to put any faith in my fellow citizens, clearly.
Omg last night at pool league. 9-ball playoffs. I, possibly the best player on our team, called a timeout to “help” the worst player on our team, and gave solid advice on what shot to take, but failed to understand her skill level and failed to give additional helpful details (like how hard to hit it). She missed the shot and set up her opponent for an easy win and we ultimately lost the tournament by one point. Sigh. Big ole goof and totally my fault.
Practice makes perfect I bet she’ll remember the shot next time and come at it with a higher skill level ^^
I thought the cat wanted to be pet— it did not.
I bet it did want to be petted but its a cat… so those things change pretty quickly and most of the time your gonna be the last to know
Several times as viewable here on the Fediverse; this account, my P.D. account, accidentally posted a comment to the wrong post as viewable in the modlogs😣, CCing lemmy.ca admins and P.D. admins.
Making mistakes all the time is painful; hopefully I’ve repeated less of them as time continues or so I hope anyways…
I’m remodeling a house and I’ve learned that my initial idea is always wrong and it will take me 3 days to accept the right answer.
