In Praise of Shame

discotheque: and no “changing your mind” about an issue does not make you a...

fussyfangs:

fefari:

and no “changing your mind” about an issue does not make you a hypocrite if you spoke against it before and now don’t feel that way, it means you used new information to draw new conclusions and if you find the right information there is a good chance that your view will be truer to your beliefs!

PERSONALLY, I find it pretty admirable when someone shifts their viewpoint after informing themselves, through debate and dialogue and reading and listening to people! It takes a lot to be able to challenge and examine your own pre-conceived notions and I don’t see why growing and changing as a person is an inherently bad thing?

So yeah.

^This.

Sometimes I think that people (and particularly people on tumblr) will only ever see you as a decent person if you have always been some kind of saint, to the point where I feel that admitting to having held any kind of unsavoury views in the past is something that will make you be shunned. Actually, I think it’s a good thing to be an example to others that it is possible to change and grow as a person…

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