Reflections
Changing my mind in public
An honest correction can be more useful than consistency for its own sake.
Once I have expressed an opinion, I can feel obliged to maintain it. There it is, bearing my name. Changing it risks looking inconsistent, which seems dreadful until I consider the alternative of being consistently mistaken.
New information is allowed to change an answer. So is understanding something I missed the first time. I can say that plainly without performing a small disappearance of my previous position. The aim is to see the situation more clearly, not to protect a statement simply because I happened to make it.
An original reflection by Theo Luke Dornan. Independent and not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or AA World Services.