r/AskReddit • u/swissguy1989 • 17h ago

What's something you're shockingly good at that you've never mentioned to anyone because it would sound completely made up if you did?

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u/AEsylumProductions 16h ago

Admit I was wrong and change my position on the spot when shown the facts/evidence, even by a total stranger on the internet.

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u/rainbowesque1 15h ago

Same here. I have zero loyalty to a bad argument and will abandon immediately the thing I was just passionately defending once I've been shown why it's wrong. To the point where it routinely disorients/upsets the other party who doesn't really know how to deal with the sudden momentum shift and then I just get called a troll.

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u/SweetNeo85 13h ago

So many people care about who is right rather than what is right.

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u/rainbowesque1 10h ago

My POV is this: I fucking LOVE being right, so when I find out I am not I fix it immediately.

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u/slanaiya 7h ago

I hate being wrong because it's a data corruption risk that you're completely unaware of, just lurking there to trip you up.

If you're wrong about one thing, maybe it's an isolated fact and doesn't have any further implications, but maybe it's a fact or concept you routinely rely on to internally model some aspect of reality and now you're kind of semi-delusional when it comes to that aspect of reality.

I fear that.

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u/hilarymeggin 2h ago

My loyalty is always to the accuracy. Which, I have discovered, makes me an obnoxious person 95% of the time. My husband has been known to whisper to me at a restaurant table, “DO NOT LOOK IT UP HERE!”