That's Just Wrong

It seems we spend an inordinate amount of time telling other people they're wrong and then trying to prove it to them. It makes us feel good and not wrong.

Wrongness is something we are taught to eschew at a very young age. We'll lie in order to avoid being wrong. We'll bargain away our common sense and logic if it means not being wrong.

We learn in school that right answers are rewarded and wrong answers are, well...they're wrong. Sometimes they're just plain wrong and other times they're completely wrong or ganz falsch as the Germans say. Can I get partial credit?

The old adage is, "We learn from our mistakes", or being wrong. Yet, it still doesn't feel good to be wrong. But old adages can't be wrong can they? We're suppose to not want to be wrong, even though being wrong is good for us. The truth is that often we learn more by being successful more than failing, no matter what Edison said. (The light bulb thing)

Evidently, some people are always wrong, which has to be hard to do. While others are never wrong, an equally daunting task. There are those who are wrong-headed, a ghoulish result indeed, and there are those who try to right a wrong by making two wrongs and they're still wrong.

"If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right". Now that's just silly and decidedly wrong. 

In science they have an expression for an idea that lacks any merit at all. They say "It's not even wrong." Now that's a low bar.

It occurs to me that we would definitely rather prove someone wrong than try and prove them right. After all, right is on our side. 

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.