A Philosophical Question

[forsyth]

How do people manage to be wrong?

Comments

[frustratedpilot]

Wrong and right can often be situational. Sometimes a perfect solution to one problem can lead to a horrible disaster when applied to a different problem. Moral absolutes do not work in this world, yet too many people are in love with moral absolutes.

This doesn't begin to answer your question, but I have to admit that my own personal philosophy, such as it is, is incomplete and uncodified. So I can't in good conscience answer your question. If that makes me wrong too, I suppose I have to accept the fact.

[peterchayward.livejournal.com]

Errors in calculation.

[fearrett.livejournal.com]

Ignorance.

A Snappy Answer

[dezro.livejournal.com]

Practice.

Re: A Snappy Answer

[peterchayward.livejournal.com]

Haha, nice.

[dirkdada.livejournal.com]

How do people manage to be wrong?

With a cultivated, meticulous, and supremely self-assured flare.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I have no direct personal experience in this area.

More to the point...

[kalifla.livejournal.com]

How do people manage to be right?

Re: More to the point...

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

By not being wrong? :)

Re: More to the point...

[kalifla.livejournal.com]

But your question was how people manage to be wrong, from which I infer too many manage to be right, and that confuses me.

Re: More to the point...

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

People manage to be right all the time. When they do something that works. So I guess my original question should have been not how do people manage to be wrong, but how do they manage to KEEP being wrong, when being wrong doesn't work?

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

That's actually a lot like what I've vaguely figured, but I don't think it's everything. Because people manage to keep being wrong, when they're obviously wrong, and that's what I really don't understand.

Re: More to the point...

[kalifla.livejournal.com]

See, I love it when people are specific.

My hypothetical answer for that is pure, raw talent.