[throwaway290]

The irony is that you are looking at an example where a guy literally paused to consider how he was not so smart about communication. He also shared it with others who can also lack this skill

[IncreasePosts]

He said "I think it is laudable if you accustom people to the offensiveness of the truth, but be prepared that you may suffer some personal damage".

Doesn't sound like someone doing introspection, it sounds more like he is lamenting that the world isn't as "logical" as he is.

[robertlagrant]

Well, not logical. Truthful. "How much of communication is impaired by filtering through various politeness laws and offences?" Is how I read it.

[ceuk]

> Doesn't sound like someone doing introspection, it sounds more like he is lamenting that the world isn't as "logical" as he is.

There's an autistic elephant in the room. "Why are people so irrational" could be one of the slogans if there was a high functioning autistic persons society

[s1artibartfast]

Sure, I don't think anyone was claiming infallibility.

I think it is easy however to romanticize these such errors made in the pursuit of truth.

It can be like the pointing out the fallibility of Galileo Galilei in thinking he wouldn't be held to the inquisition, and made to recant his evidence of heliocentrism.