I am fallible.
I just thought I should mention it as it seemed to come as a terrible shock to some right wing commentators yesterday, who appeared inclined to think before this shocking revelation that I shared a status otherwise only ascribed to the Pope.
I assure you, that, whether he agrees or not, he and I can and do make mistakes. And as I proved yesterday, I acknowledge them when I do.
But I also do not agree I have erred just because someone else claims that to be the case. I may be fallible, but I require evidence before agreeing. There is good reason for that. According to some everything I do and say is wrong. That's an interesting idea, but there is no evidence to support it. What is more, its repetition wastes a great deal if time and effort.
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“According to some everything I do and say is wrong”
Depends who is saying it. Possibly from people who do not support fair tax. People who do not care about other people. People who do care about …. obtaining more money at the cost of others.
I guess you should take it as a compliment.
Richard
Do you really feel qualified to opine on the doctrine of papal infallibility? Really?
Everyone is capable of discussing Papal infallibility
It is obviously absurd
What would be worrying was someone not realising that
Ironman-do you live in an irony free zone? What an impoverished imagination!
I have often noted how the corporate world view supporters and status-quo lackeys always go for your throat when you make the slightest error. There is a tradition of this which requires infallibility from those who have social concerns about the nature of oligarchy capitalism while every license to lie and manipulate is taken as a given by the representatives of rapacious, vicious capitalism and short-term wallet lining. Most of these people have lined their wallets to bursting point over the last 35 years and can’t see further than the end of their noses due to a complete lack of an imaginative faculty that extends beyond ‘me’, ‘my self interest’, schadenfreude and a bit more ‘me!’ These psychologically stunted, emotionally deficient homunculi are genuinely scared that change might just be possible and find what you do genuinely frightening.
I do wish you would stop pulling your punches!!
OK
For a day or two
Maybe
Richard
Thank you for showing me you have no notion of what papal infallibility actually is
No really, thank you.
Do you have any clue what irony might be?
I seriously doubt it
As a fellow blogger I recognise your situation entirely – a Great Riposte x
Why would you think that people pointing out you’d made the mistake of confusing patents with trademarks means they thought you were not fallible?
Anyone following your blog knows how fallible you are.
Why, in today’s blog on the budget deficit you managed to confuse self-assessment with self-employment.
You’ve not in the past let your fallibility stop you commenting on topics and I’m sure you won’t in the future.
Oh dear, irony really does pass you people by, doesn’t it?
And re self assessment and self employment – of course the two do not exactly overlap but unless you’re expecting a boom in rental income, investment returns or some other source don’t you think it very likely that a link between increased returns from self assessment might have some significant correlation with a massive rise in the number of self employed people?
I confused nothing: I made completely reasonable and justifiable assumptions, even if, because this is not an academic journal, I do not always specify every single assumption I make.
However, let me be wholly and categorically explicit on another series of assumptions, which are that a) you’re a pedant b) like others here you have no sense of irony at all, c) you probably know a lot less than you seek to suggest you do and d) your intention is to waste my time.
Since you have no hesitation making such representations about me, I reciprocate.
So in the words of the song ‘let’s call the whole thing off’.
Please don’t call again