Do Mistakes Make A Better Society

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In a society where perfection is unachievable, we fail to realize how important our mistakes are to our improvement. We often scold others for making mistakes whether they affect us or not. We show disapprobation to others that are trying, but happen to fail. However, we should be celebrating the effort, cheering on the mistakes, and striving for development of the better. Mistakes make a better society and community. In the passage, the author addresses the term “trial and error,” and the way it is used so commonly. She talks of the way that we do not call it “trial and triumph” or “trial and rightness” because that is simplistically not what it pans out to be. When having a trial, it means that you are going through, working through, or

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