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Comment by goobatrooba

As we are in a public forum I venture to leave a comment on your two-person convo.

You (NewsaHackO) made a claim, which the other commenter showed was wrong. Then your successive comments change the nature of the claim / qualify your statement to a point it is a different one.

This is just an observation, It is not my place to make a judgment. We all learn by nuancing our understanding, so the thread may have widened everyone's worldview. I learned something and thank you both for this tidbit.

But it is also important to be humble: we are all wrong about many things. Most of those things don't matter to us as a person or to our lives. Thus when there is a (presumably) low-importance opinion as the one discussed here, maybe it is a good moment to take a step back, reflect, and update our worldview.

It helps us grow when we update our beliefs, and it is a sign of a wise man that he can accept that he was wrong and learn from it, rather than to argue about semantics or reframe the debate.

parent goobatrooba 19 days ago

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