# Admitting When You Are Wrong in Great Debates **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 18, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460 "2019-09-18T21:17:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/61 "2019-09-19T20:35:17Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Hell, now I’m going to have to clean up the nonsensical mess you’ve made that have gotten people to agree to something fucking stupid. What on earth are you blathering about now? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/62 "2019-09-19T21:44:19Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > And that makes you a person of fine character. Plenty of buffoonery to mock that actually happened. Yeah, well, if I’m right about someone being a flaming asshole 10,000 times and wrong once, I’m not going to get too upset about that. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/63 "2019-09-19T22:02:35Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > At least he and his gang didn’t hijack a thread or 40 with plagiarized recipes. You don’t know what the recipes are about? Seriously? It is a bit of a meta-joke about proper feeding of a troll. Not really funny, but hopefully a little frustrating to a troll. I don’t do it, but it should be fairly clear why it is done. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/64 "2019-09-19T22:16:13Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > It’s OK to concede an erroneous statement without explicitly saying “I was wrong - beat me with armadillo tails and let me be eaten by starving baby elephants”\*. > > I find that to be more acceptable than continually posting provocative, false claims leading to lengthy acrimonious debate, then finally saying “I was wrong about that, sorry” and receiving fulsome praise for admitting error (we had a poster who continually employed that M.O.). > > \*obscure Fugs song reference. “If I can’t have yoooooouuuu…” that made my day:) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/65 "2019-09-20T07:45:45Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > You know what you call a march of ten proud neo-Nazis and ten people joining in with them? > > A twenty person neo-Nazi march. Is that yours? 'cos I’m going to be [del]plagiarizing[/del] reusing it… ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/66 "2019-09-20T08:01:27Z")
I’ve seen it around lots of places; I think it’s part of german tradition but I’m not sure. It’s certainly pretty fuckin’ accurate. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/67 "2019-09-20T14:16:04Z")
It is a well-known and well-appreciated tautology: “If you march with Nazis, you’re a Nazi, because only Nazis march with Nazis.” ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/68 "2019-09-20T17:15:53Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > \*Plagiarized \*recipes? Where do you find recipes that aren’t meant to be shared? Double highjack–secret recipes and Nazis: Seinfeld’s [Soup Nazi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLQOQNVzgY). Elaine gets back at him at the ~3:50 mark. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460/69 "2019-09-20T23:42:28Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > [Recipes, Copyright and Plagiarism - Plagiarism Today](https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/03/24/recipes-copyright-and-plagiarism/) > > Lists are one thing but the directions are another. Now, in the spirit of this thread, I am willing to admit I might be wrong. I thought you might have confused “plagiarizing” with “copying,” but it looks like you actually did some research, so I have to applaud you for that. I’m not going to sass you for being wrong. I see this as a sign of you maturing and evolving, realizing that some of the things you blindingly accept as true actually have flaws. One day you’ll finally realize that expressing fact and truth ISN’T liberal idealism maliciously attacking conservative values. Or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admitting-when-you-are-wrong-in-great-debates/840460.md?page=3)