r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Elegant-Mode9005 • Aug 27 '26

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...šŸ¤¦

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u/thebrassbeldum Aug 27 '26

You canā€™t trust anything they do either, because they are dumb!

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u/WriterV Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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- Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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- Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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

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u/YouKilledApollo Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

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 Aug 27 '26

Which means they arenā€™t actually dumb.

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u/beren12 Aug 27 '26

Being dumb is no problem. Knowingly lying to your friend is.

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u/RealPoopyButthole Aug 27 '26

ā€œBeing dumb is no problemā€ is a problem. The grammar is sloppy; the idea is worse. It doesnā€™t comfort peopleā€”it gives them permission to stay incurious. Ignorance isnā€™t the sin. Treating it like a personality, when books, search, and half the internet are free, is.

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u/zombietobe Aug 27 '26

Youā€™re harping on grammar but obviously havenā€™t checked your own. That last sentence is rough.

I wouldnā€™t bother to point it out except for the irony - when you police someoneā€™s writing in casual discourse but obviously have your own difficulties as well, itā€™s not a great look.

This isnā€™t a question of curiosity, itā€™s a question of honesty. I know people who are ā€œdumbā€ but incredibly earnest and embrace the opportunity to learn from their mishaps, or simply own it and move on.

The mere fact of being dumb is genuinely not a problem, nor is intellectual curiosity a universal mandate.

The problem is when deception is knowingly, deliberately used to compensate.

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u/randbot5000 Aug 27 '26

you've made up a fake distinction here in order to get mad about it. Why do you interpret "being dumb" as "treating it like a personality" rather than a literal synonym for "ignorance"?

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u/-Casey-Diaz- Aug 27 '26

Dumb and a liar. Double-whammy of unreliable.

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u/early_birdy Aug 27 '26

Ignorant people (what I suppose you mean by "dumb") can still be trusted. They would say "I don't know", and that's that.

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u/WartimeHotTot Aug 27 '26

Now you will see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.