[kiryandil]

Thanks moonman62, unfortunately your correct. It is human nature to be slow to change a mind IF an initial judgment is made. I’m told psychologists call this a human’s need for consistency. We get lazy and don’t go through the process every time - we just do like we did before. Once we “decide” we have ownership in the position.

Actually, one of the unspoken rules of Free Republic from the beginning was to vigorously advance and defend a position, but be intellectually honest enough to fess up when your position is shown to be wrong.

I once posted a retraction thread on the Ron Brown plane crash, many many years ago, when my position clearly became untenable. I had invested heavily in my position, but I had to recognize that I was incorrect in some of the things that I posted.

And so I retracted them.

[Osage Orange]

Go post....

I've been wrong enough to know...

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

I’ve done the same.

You won’t see the cop sucker trolls do the same.