@jubilant wrote:
@biancardi wrote:
@jubilant wrote:
I think this is about us giving people the right to be wrong without that bothering us. No one likes to be told they are wrong. It was about stuffing each others wrongs back in each others faces. It's about letting other people be wrong without telling them they are wrong to promote better conversations. It is not telling them they are right....it is not telling them they are wrong. If they are wrong it is something they must learn for themselves. So until you yourself are ready to see it...you will not see it. That goes for all people. That's basically what the guy was saying.
I agree this could be taken a lot of different ways. If I had created the title myself, I think I might have said..."we need to give people the right to be wrong" On the other hand that is not for us to give and you get into the matter of choice...so I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this!! Everyones take on it has been interesting. It was more the title that drew me in....
there are ways to correct someone, but seriously, if people cannot accept being corrected with facts, it tells me that they do not want to know the correct information and blindly have their own narrative.
If you are refering to life choices, like marrying the wrong person and refusing to accept what others can see, at some point and time, you will have to admit you are wrong in that choice. However, most people aren't going to "correct" you on your choice of partner (maybe some close friends and family)
Or taking a risk that everyone thinks is a bad move. Those things are personal life experiences. What I was thinking of when I read your OP, was about people denying basic and factual information. Not life choices.
********************* I get what you are saying but you say "you would have to admit you are wrong in that choice". Some people never admit they are wrong! It is that person's right to either deny it or admit it. As far as people denying basic and factual information, people get their facts and information from different sources. They rely and trust those sources and the sources may tell each person something different. If you don't trust my facts and I don't trust your facts, so to speak. For example the weatherman may say it's going to rain today. I look out my window and it's cloudy and tell DH... "the weatherman says it's going to rain today but from what I see, I don't think it will" DH then tells me...I think he's right...look outside. I say...I think it will clear up. It rains. He got his facts from the weatherman.....I looked at the sky. Now the weatherman is the expert and he looked at the sky too. In this case the weatherman was wrong even though he is the expert and had all the facts there on a screen...BUT....it didn't rain.
weather changes all the time & it is specific to your location. The weather man is not looking at the sky, he is tracking thru sophisticated equipment and satellites. It could be raining one mile down the road and not in your area. The weather patterns may move and shift. That type of data is changeable, because weather patterns are changeable . More often than not, however, the weather folks DO get it right and if they err, it isn't because they are incompetent.
That said, there are hard scientific and mathematical facts that people ignore because they wish to "believe" something else.
2 + 2 = 4, not 5.
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