How easy is it to admit your wrong?

[Thespeckledkiwi]

For me, admitting I'm wrong isn't that hard and I do apologize. Pretty much I take the blame, even if it isn't always totally my fault. *shrugs* It's easier that way and we can move on with our lives. So how hard is it for you to admit your wrong?

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

I am never wrong.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

I am never wrong.

Yes you are...Red Wings fan? Bah!

 

[MANT!]

I'm married...it isn't hard...even when I'm not..

 

[Rii]

It depends upon who's right.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

If someone convinces me i am wrong, i will admit it.

 

[Geckothan]

I refuse to believe/admit I'm wrong until somebody brings up hard evidence that shows that I'm wrong, which usually results in humiliation!

 

[clint g]

I am never wrong.

This

 

[Captain Ice]

Rules:

1. I am never, ever wrong.
2. If I'm wrong, see rule number 1.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Rules:

1. I am never, ever wrong.
2. If I'm wrong, see rule number 1.

Da Bunny will set you straight.

 

[Emher]

It's easier for me to admit that I'm wrong these days, when I'm, oh, an adult. People being willing to admit that they're wrong are one of the requirments for humanity to move forward as a species.

That being said I have my opinions and standards, but I totally respect if someone doesn't live by those as long as they don't try and push their opinions and standards on me.

 

[Jadzia]

I can and do admit when I am wrong. But it depends what being wrong is.

Some people can consider (subjective) opinions to be incorrect and prompt for an admission of wrongness. But if I'm giving my opinion, or my reasons for doing something, there isn't necessarily a case for being wrong, although my opinions might sometimes be unpopular.

I tend not to think in these terms though. In day to day (social) life I tend to be more pragmatic than judging whether things are correct or incorrect. If something works, then it works. If something doesn't work then I try something else. "Wrong" is rather grave labeling that doesn't help or improve a situation. And being pragmatic doesn't mean that I can't enjoy trying out-of-the-box methods.

 

[trekkiedane]

Depends on how much drama I can create by not admitting that I'm wrong.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Assuming the definitions of right and wrong are a given (and something we can discuss another time), I think the real question is to see how painful it is to admit wrongdoing. I suggest that it is painful, but to a varying degree, and that it is our perception of that pain and its relation to the magnitude of the wrongdoing, plus our perception of how severe the consequences are of both the admission of wrongdoing and the alternative of NOT admitting wrongdoing, that determines how hard it is to say you were wrong.

Personally, it is never easy. Never has been, never will be. But I do admit my wrongdoings as appropriate.

 

[backstept]

I'm married...it isn't hard...even when I'm not..

if I ever get married I will refuse to 'admit I'm wrong' if I am in fact right
it's simply unacceptable to do that in my opinion

 

[Jadzia]

I think situations warranting an apology can overlap with those prompting an admission of being wrong. But I think that apologies are more commonly prompted for than the latter. All to often, the latter is subjective.

 

[Da'an]

Admit my wrong? Admit my wrong to where?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I think situations warranting an apology can overlap with those prompting an admission of being wrong. But I think that apologies are more commonly prompted for than the latter. All to often, the latter is subjective.

I think most things have a degree of subjectivity to them, whether it is causing offence to the moral majority by breaking relatively recent laws applicable to a relatively small group; or getting a maths problem wrong by breaking laws so old that our modern ways see then as objective fact.

While intrinsically they are fundamentally similar, therefore. there is still a perceived difference between apologising for causing disruption, and admitting that whatever disruption you caused was seen as wrong by whatever establishing authority. The latter is less superficial and takes great courage to pull off.

 

[Da'an]

I don't like admitting I'm wrong. However I'm usually willing to concede that I've been mistaken, if that is as the case may be.

 

[TheLonelySquire]

I'm married...it isn't hard...even when I'm not..

if I ever get married I will refuse to 'admit I'm wrong' if I am in fact right
it's simply unacceptable to do that in my opinion

Marriage is a blast! Join the team!