That’s always been my view on these subjects as a parent. Especially considering all 3 of my kids have autism and have a tendency to not follow rules at all if the rule doesn’t make sense to them.
Like seriously my father was the perfect example of this shit. The amount of times he’d bully me about not trying to have sex with any of my female friends while simultaneously saying “not in my house you won’t” is crazy.
Pffft, you believe in the Moon?
I find this funny because where I live in Western NY they didn’t even offer service. I’ve been stuck with Spectrum for years. Especially infuriating was another fiber provider came into my neighborhood and one asshole refused to give them an easement to access the pole on their property so literally my block is one of the only spots in my neighborhood they don’t have service. I want to drop Spectrum so bad but they’re pretty much the only provider in my area.
Saaaaaame…
I went from being homophobic because I mistook my being uncomfortable with overt sexual advances from anyone as being uncomfortable with gay men because “of course I’m attracted to women I just haven’t met The One yet,” to thinking I was bi because once I thought about it I realized I didn’t really feel any differently toward men and women, to finally my now wife when we were dating introducing me to the concept of being asexual and I realized that yeah I do have the same attraction toward men and women… Zero.
Compulsive Heterosexuality is strong yo.
It’s not a failure in the usual sense we think about it, no. You were still “technically wrong” in whatever hypothesis you had that was disproven. But the end result is different because theoretically everyone involved cares more about the answer being found, not necessarily that they are the one to do it.
Hell, in cases where whatever you did was later proven incorrect it’s usually that whatever you did was the most correct answer for the information we had at the time. Then new information is discovered and often someone else builds off what you did to get this new answer.