#Human Fallibility

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Evolution is a fact, not a theory. It really happened, and the fossil record and the molecular biology all confirm it. And yet, in this country, the United States, which is the leading scientific country in the world, we have people who are not only ignorant of science, but who are actively hostile to it and to the scientific method. And that is a serious problem, because science is not just a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. It's a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility." -- Carl Sagan

[wickedzeevyln]

The Cursed Sorry

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know what I was doing.” Oh, but you did. You just got too comfortable, too reckless—then sloppy. In the beginning, you were a ninja, a cat, a slippery shadow light couldn’t touch—easily fending off the truth, burying it lie after lie, until it piled up into a mountain too conspicuous to ignore. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission—the devil’s mantra. A well-worn…

[tealin]

Hello! I’m in Christchurch atm and stopped by Scott’s statue while out on a wander, and noticed something strange about the plaque below it. As a resident Bilson expert, I was wondering if you knew anything about it?

Bill’s initials here are listed as A.E. rather than E.A.? I may be completely missing something here, but I’ve never seen him referred to anywhere as Adrian Edward rather than Edward Adrian; though it seems a rather glaring typo to have made on such a prominent monument. Any ideas?

People make mistakes sometimes.

The plaque at the Cape Crozier igloo says the Winter Journey party got there in June 1911 when it fact it was July – they had departed Cape Evans in June. The handful of people who would ever visit are the most likely people in the world to notice the mistake. But to err is human ... it's only a little more embarrassing when one does so in bronze. I'm guessing the text was assembled by someone who didn't know, made a transcription error, and it wasn't caught until it was too late.

This statue is one of my faves (the other being the bust in Canterbury Museum, which I believe is inaccessible at the moment) – Kathleen had to make it in marble rather than bronze because of wartime supply issues, but I think it's a superior sculpture to the one on Waterloo Place (of which it's technically a copy) due to the limitations of the medium making it more graphic, and the way marble interacts with light. Thanks for visiting Capt. Scott, and enjoy Christchurch!

[ryanranney]

Father of the Scribe

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. – Proverbs 15:3 I write not that it should be praised Nor do I speak to be heard of myself Truly that youth has long past me But for the sanity of my thoughts And the promise of God to restore them For I as a man am as all men Hungry, thirsty, ravenous in desire Needing, wanting, torn by self will Critical, cynical,…

[missourielephant]

I won’t argue that juries make mistakes, but if you did abolish it, what would it be replaced with?

The possibility of bribery, threats or personal biases affecting decisions will remain no matter who makes the decision. All you can do is try to prevent those things. No country in the world has or will ever have a perfect legal system, because people are by definition flawed.

Giving absolute power to the judge? That’s a lot of power for one person, probably too much. As to the matter of bribes or threats, bribing or threatening one person is certainly easier than doing it to twelve.

A panel of other lawyers? They’d understand the legal terms better than regular people, but where would you get them? Any prosecutors would be inclined to favor the prosecution, and any defense lawyers would be inclined to favor the defense.

The legal system in America was formed on the belief that it is better to let a guilty person to go free than to punish an innocent one, so more rights and considerations were given to the defendant. And as noted, you’ll never be able to completely remove corruption.

I agree that the jurors made the wrong decision here, but what is the solution?

The jury’s verdict, delivered on the third day of deliberations, declared Combs, 55, not guilty of one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion but guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

abolish the jurors' system.

[postersbykeith]

[astroreoreoreoreoreoreoreo]

remember that one boss concept art I did a while ago. He has a friend enemy(?) now

"Though I'll take a stand, I'm still only human/ the goddess you need can't be me"

[asweetersapphic]

y’all do realize that the statements “police brutality is abhorrent and never acceptable” and “i feel bad for caitlyn kiramman arcane in s2” are two statements/thoughts that can coexist, right?

[ihavethegrimoire]

For my part, I don't even think Gojo letting his guard down was some example of fatal hubris. Gojo haters want to act like he deserved to die. And Gojo defenders act like he never could have made a mistake in his fucking life. You're all wrong.

Has none of you been given a difficult task and at the beginning you're like "I can do this" (cope) but then you get into it, you start succeeding, you feel like you're getting the hang of it. "I can do this" (genuine) and then sometimes you're plain unlucky, you let your guard down and slip up in a major way. You fail. You lose.

In Gojo's extreme circumstances, he died.

[ostensiblynone]

So you stopped taking cocaine? I thought it was going to be a lot more difficult than it was. After a few months it was out of my system and it was gone. Now if people are round my house and whacking them out, I don't feel anything any more. But the panic attacks weren't just the gear. A lot was stress-induced.

—Noel Gallagher in GQ Magazine | February 2000 link via archive of oa515.com

[jonathanrook]

hell is actually just being very good at communicating your boundaries and being willing to apologize correctly when realizing you're in the wrong but constantly being surrounded by people who are painfully dedicated to misunderstanding you

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

(delirious) the thing about s-class heroine is that, despite or maybe even precisely because it's set in a world with gods, neither of the leads would ever worship the other with god-like reverence and awe. Tesilid is too sick of being god's plaything to compare ailette to one, and Ailette is this crazy about Tesilid precisely because she knows he's only human, and his humanity is so worthy of protection to her. They both acknowledge each other as human, albeit crazily overpowered ones.

They're both as close to god as anyone in-universe could ever conceive of, but because they're the two strongest humans on the continent anyway, this doesn't make a difference - they're equals.

You know who's weak enough for the power differential to make a difference and who had a life-changing godly intervention by one of these two during their childhood, though? That's right, hestio ligen--

[wickedzeevyln]

Ghost

“Just a second,” Ted raises his index finger at the man barely clearing the horizontal frame while still talking to someone on his phone. “I’ll get back to you soon. There is someone here,” said Ted pushing the button of his ear bud. “This better not be the wrong protein shake you delivered last week—” The man pulls something from behind his back and aims it at Ted, a revolver. “You stole my wife…

[chuplayswithfire]

The death penalty is wrong because governments shouldn't have the authority to execute anyone under any circumstances.

But damn, some people should be killed.

[iappearmissing]

--^ bitch who needs therapy but refuses to acknowledge that

[imminent-danger-came]

The world may be horrible but I have my 7 bitches