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I can't agree with this more. It really holds us back (since the beginning). From school boards, local government, and even HOAs. Humans are so prideful, they rather find ways to defend their wrong decision than fix the underlying issue.

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I don't know that it's all pride. I don't have much of a problem admitting mistakes amongst friends and most co-workers, but I've definitely worked with a few people you could never admit failure to. They were either the type of people who felt everything needed to have someone to blame and who would be punished for the failure, or people who could use any mistake as ammunition in office politics.

The government here may have refused to back down out of fear of setting a precedent that would be used in other cases where they were actually in the right

Your last sentence just makes the worst excuse ever. Doing wrong to be able to do right in other cases...

Oh it's not an excuse for what they did at all. I was just pointing out that pride might not be why they did this

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