Cedre writes:
Yes I concede defeat on this particular point, go ahead jeer at me call me an idiot a fool, I don't mind.
The fool is the person who thinks less of people who are mistaken while ignoring his own fallibility.
The advantage in debate does tend to those with the greater command of facts, but there is no worse mistake than failure to admit obvious error. The poster boy for this condition in a now long forgotten debate with then candidate Jimmy Carter was President Ford claiming that Poland was not dominated by communist Russia.
--Percy