Thursday, October 11, 2007

I made a mistake

A common phrase used by people who do bad things, endanger other people, or perform criminal acts. Vick, Spears, Rose. Dog fighting, child endangerment, betting on your own baseball team. And it bugs me.

In my humble opinion a mistake is forgetting to carry the 1 when adding or borrow when subtracting, or using "your" instead of "you're" or "her and me" instead of "she and I". It is not the same as doing wrong deeds.

Conscious decisions can be wrong, but they cannot be mistakes.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ditto! They all "did wrong". :-)