Anyone else love it when people accept valid criticism and genuinely change as a person?

[Abaddon64]

Oh yeah those people are great. We're getting less and less of them though

[UnpaidIntern]

@Abaddon64 Yeah, I think it stems from a culture where admitting you're wrong is considered being weak, scared or cowardly. But someone being scared to admit that they're wrong is like quite literally being scared

[UnpaidIntern]

I realized that I mispelled person as peeson but it was too funny after I saw it so I didn't fix it lol

[Shockrat]

@UnpaidIntern lol

[Abaddon64]

@UnpaidIntern yeah my dad is like that. He has toxic masculinity

[Yanderemenhera]

I wish more people could admit they were wrong, there's someone in particular I wish could own up to being wrong and stop trying to deceive people into getting shitty lil internet points and when they do get caught they more or less try to farm drama from it because mommy and daddy didn't give them enough attention growing up

[UnpaidIntern]

@Abaddon64 said:

@UnpaidIntern yeah my dad is like that. He has toxic masculinity

is it just me but is every BDNS user literally in the exact same situation at the same time /j

my dad is like this too but expresses it through jokes usually so it ends up just being kinda annoying sometimes, then they kind of just do it unironically

[UnpaidIntern]

@Yanderemenhera

fr, i 100% know who you're talking about though, they're definitely guilty of this but they're probably innocent

[Sumrandomloser]

@UnpaidIntern said:

I gain ALL respect for a peeson

Peeson🥹🥹

[UnpaidIntern]

What's funny is that this topics actually still has the joke of mimicking The Thing I'm Talking About Like In The Other Topics. I made this post after someone said I focused too much on hating so i technically "accepted valid criticism and genuinely changed as a person" (although not too much lol)

[GooXy]

@UnpaidIntern maybe in an another world that will be reality

[UnpaidIntern]

@GooXy

wait what wdym

edit: oh wait you replied to the topic not the above post, i wish more people did this but it is a reality for some really cool people

[WeedAreTheWorld]

What about people that actually are incapable of admitting they're wrong. Asking for a friend ha ha

[UnpaidIntern]

@WeedAreTheWorld uh i'd say to send them to the pit of death as a joke or something but "asking for a friend" implies that that's literally yo-

if your "friend" is self-aware and wants to do something about it i'd probably start by asking them what makes them have this uncontrollable fear (assuming they're not doing this consciously) then have them try to resolve or self-reflect that first. Like, for example, which specific aspect of admitting that they're wrong scares them, such as the fear of possible or possibly non-existent social consequences coming afterward. And to try to willpower/brave their way into doing it anyway despite any remaining fear

[UnpaidIntern]

@WeedAreTheWorld

Also if your friend is doing it out of like a fear of social consequences, you could note that there is literally zero place or group you want to be in where admitting you're wrong is worse than not. Shaming someone for literally just admitting that they made a mistake and apologing is kind of asshole behavior. It should result in forgiveness (well unless crimes were committed or something) and other people generally liking them more than if they didn't admit they were wrong