The Moral Vision
Admitting One’s Faults
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ADMITTING ONE’S FAULTS
A
young player who had participated in a big
football match for the first time, wrote to his father
after his team had been defeated:
“Our opponents discovered a great gap in our
defence line, and that was me.”
Such acceptance of one’s shortcomings is rare, for it
requires great courage. Without it, we cannot make
social progress. Since every defeat is attributable to
a gap in the line of defence, the best remedy is to
accept it, for in so doing, one is well on the way to
solving the problem.
