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1. Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:27:11 UTC Thomas 🔭✨

   For anyone who needs to hear this: it's OK to be wrong about things. You can have a change of opinion or beliefs after hearing more information and facts.

   That's not a personal failure.
   It's personal growth.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:27:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sumukha S

     @halfbloodprice @thomasfuchs There is a difference between changing your opinion because you understood the topic better and changing your opinion based on the latest person you spoke to.

     I think people despise the latter and don't really believe the former happens.

     That's the charitable interpretation, and that's before we bring in the whole post-truth scoirge where almegiance is more important.

   • Sumukha S (halfbloodprice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:27:15 UTC Sumukha S

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     @thomasfuchs Exactly. I don’t know why people get shamed online for changing opinions.

   • Jargoggles (jargoggles@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 21:15:16 UTC Jargoggles

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     • Sumukha S

     @clacke @thomasfuchs @halfbloodprice
     It also depends on the opinions or, more specifically, what comes along with the opinions.

     For instance, if someone has spent years spreading hate, then a simple "I was wrong about that" doesn't go very far. If someone is content to just stop there, then it's perfectly justifiable to push them to actually make amends.

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   • Daniel Blake (daniel_blake@mastodon.top)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 21:15:20 UTC Daniel Blake

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     @thomasfuchs https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/

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   • Social Diaspora Bard (textualdeviance@retro.pizza)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 21:15:25 UTC Social Diaspora Bard

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     @thomasfuchs I was a registered Libertarian at 19 (I wanted queer and abortion rights, but also gun rights, which my dad had convinced me should be sacred.) Fixed that pretty quickly, but still.

     I've also had to unlearn a lot of casual bigoted language, especially ableist language, and had to learn to shut up when other marginalized people needed to take the lead.

     My heart is usually in the right place, but I have gaps in knowledge and understanding. I'm always ready to fill those in.

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   • James Britt (jamesbritt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 21:15:29 UTC James Britt

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     @thomasfuchs

     “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

     ― Niels Bohr (supposedly)

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 21:15:30 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • James Britt

     @jamesbritt @thomasfuchs " Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

     Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

     goodreads.com/quotes/tag/exper…

   • coupland (coupland@cryptodon.lol)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 21:15:34 UTC coupland

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     @thomasfuchs Wise words. In fact, it's literally impossible to learn unless you're willing to admit there's something you either were wrong about or don't know.

     Humility is like a muscle in that it needs to be exercised. It may feel humiliating to admit your mistakes, but once you make a practice of it you realize it's free, it's painless, it helps you grow, and it INCREASES your credibility.

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   • Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 21:15:36 UTC Loukas Christodoulou

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     @thomasfuchs People who think they're never wrong are usually the wrongest people around.

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