We're ALL wrong.

[Cold Fusion38]

Why do people feel they are less of a person to be proven wrong? I am pretty stuborn in my beliefs but when I am proven beyond a doubt to be wrong it doesn't LESSEN me it helps me grow and learn. I just want to be debated with FACTS and either PROVE my point or be PROVEN wrong.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Why do people feel they are less of a person to be proven wrong? I am pretty stuborn in my beliefs but when I am proven beyond a doubt to be wrong it doesn't LESSEN me it helps me grow and learn. I just want to be debated with FACTS and either PROVE my point or be PROVEN wrong.

Sometimes........we are all wrong sometimes.

I can point to 3 or 4 posts of mine in my short time here where i've said "Shoot i'm wrong"

 

[Cold Fusion38]

Thanks Pil that is exactely the type of response I was looking for. People just get so inflexible about their views that the view takes over and forces reason out.

 

[WillowTree]

When I am proven to be wrong I have no problem saying so.

 

[Cold Fusion38]

Me too willow. I just do my best to debate HONESTLY and to cite sources that have validity. You will never see me post a link to a purely biased site.

 

[Oddball]

Do a site search for the phrase "I stand corrected".

Odds are you'll find I've posted that one a few times.

 

[Cold Fusion38]

That's another thing if you use a site to debate me let it be known that I WILL research the validity of that info.

 

[del]

That's another thing if you use a site to debate me let it be known that I WILL research the validity of that info.

i'll alert the media.

 

[alan1]

Why do people feel they are less of a person to be proven wrong? I am pretty stuborn in my beliefs but when I am proven beyond a doubt to be wrong it doesn't LESSEN me it helps me grow and learn. I just want to be debated with FACTS and either PROVE my point or be PROVEN wrong.

I was wrong.
Once.
It's when I thought I was wrong, and I wasn't.

 

[BasicGreatGuy]

Why do people feel they are less of a person to be proven wrong? I am pretty stuborn in my beliefs but when I am proven beyond a doubt to be wrong it doesn't LESSEN me it helps me grow and learn. I just want to be debated with FACTS and either PROVE my point or be PROVEN wrong.

A lot of people drive on the messageboard freeways with overinflated egos. It makes for a driving hazard.

 

[Ringel05]

Ok,
I was wrroooo. I made a mistaaaa. I'm sorrrr.
Can't do it, just can't do it.......

 

[Centrism'sVoice]

Unfortunately, nobody who makes a message board career out of toeing the party line can afford to admit that they're ever wrong.

 

[Cold Fusion38]

That's another thing if you use a site to debate me let it be known that I WILL research the validity of that info.

i'll alert the media.

Please do. I'm just sayin that so many people take info without being a critical consumer of that info.

 

[goldcatt]

I don't mind getting beat in a fair fight on a message board. Can't win 'em all! Sure can try though.

 

[Diuretic]

This is the weird part. I don't mind being proven wrong when it comes to facts. But when it comes to my opinion being proven wrong, I just lose it

 

[Cold Fusion38]

Facts opinions some just can't tell the difference.

 

[Diuretic]

Facts opinions some just can't tell the difference.

My ego is the problem. A fact can stand by itself, it doesn't matter if I believe it or not, there it is, for all the world to see. If I claim something to be a fact and someone says, "well no, as a matter of fact this is actually the case..." then I'm factually wrong. Okay, I can man up on that one. But if I have an opinion and someone proves my opinion to be based on false claims or just complete bullshit then I take it bloody hard

 

[Si modo]

I know I've done it twice here already...flat out admitted I was wrong. It will happen again, too...guaranteed.

 

[Si modo]

Unfortunately, nobody who makes a message board career out of toeing the party line can afford to admit that they're ever wrong.

Very good observation. That might just be one of those indications and warnings that one is dealing with some sort of partisan keyboard warrior/talking point propagator rather than one who is interested in honest discussion and exchange of ideas.

 

[dilloduck]

Facts opinions some just can't tell the difference.

My ego is the problem. A fact can stand by itself, it doesn't matter if I believe it or not, there it is, for all the world to see. If I claim something to be a fact and someone says, "well no, as a matter of fact this is actually the case..." then I'm factually wrong. Okay, I can man up on that one. But if I have an opinion and someone proves my opinion to be based on false claims or just complete bullshit then I take it bloody hard

oh BULL--I don't buy that for a second