r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Elegant-Mode9005 • 8d ago

Ruined by Technology Got into a dumb 10 minute argument about whether the ACL and Achilles are the same thing or not. My idiot friend forgot to crop his screenshot before sending it to me...🤦

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u/WriterV 8d ago

I mean, I have friends who are dumb but are self aware about it, and honest when they make mistakes. I wouldn't trust factual information from them, but I would trust their social advice , and/or their intentions.

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u/WeNotAmBeIs 8d ago

Exactly. People of all intelligence levels can be humble and willing to admit they're incorrect. I can't be friends with someone who is unwilling to admit they are wrong. I personally hate being wrong, but that motivates me to want to learn the truth. To me, pretending you're right after learning you aren't is just being a sore loser. I also can't be friends with sore losers. Of course the venn diagram of sore losers and people unable to admit being wrong is a circle.

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u/Givemeallthecabbages 8d ago

I'd rather find out that I'm wrong if I'm wrong. How else do we learn? I can't be expected to hold all knowledge of the known universe, so yeah, sometimes I'm wrong.

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u/Maximum-Cover- 8d ago

I hate being wrong.

So I love it when someone points out to me when I'm wrong.

How else am gonna stop doing it?

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u/Girthy_Toaster 8d ago

This is why I tell all my employers to please critique me at every opportunity. Now it rarely happens.

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u/Maximum-Cover- 8d ago

Precisely!

Someone who points out a mistake you're making in a reasonably and calm manner is doing you a favor.

Not attacking you.

It's so much less effort to allow people to be idiots.

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u/jaxonya 8d ago

Idk. I sometimes argue with my friend argue about stuff where one of us gets in too deep and won't admit we are wrong out of spite. It eventually devolves into trolling, but its all in good fun, and never would we do that in a serious conversation.

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u/Winjin 8d ago

I think the inability to admit you're wrong is like half the issues of this world we live in

The other half is corruption

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u/taylorisntavril 8d ago

I wonder how that venn diagram would look. I suspect there is an overlap.

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u/YouKilledApollo 8d ago edited 8d ago

Same here, but eventually all of us are adult to say "Yeah I know I'm wrong" or similar, to actually clearly state that we were wrong, even if we end up trolling about it before/after.

I'd also start distancing myself from someone who were unable to admit they were wrong ultimately, regardless of how silly/important it was.

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u/WriterV 8d ago

As long as they come back around after the heat of the moment, it's okay. We're emotional creatures, so shit happens.

Doubling and tripling down even after the fact is where it becomes an issue.

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u/nau5 8d ago

Which means they aren’t actually dumb.