Its true that anyone can make mistakes. Mistakes are required for learning, for updating your beliefs about the world. Trusting yourself doesn't mean believing you're always right. It means running all incoming information thru your own judgement, asking yourself, "does this make sense to me based on what I currently believe?". If it doesn't, reject or at least hold in suspicion the information. Don't accept it just because some supposed authority figure with a big hat on TV told you. Maybe new information comes in later than corroborates it, maybe not. In any case, if you never update your beliefs about something, you have chosen to stop learning about that thing.
The truth is not afraid to be questioned and doesn't need to be supported by censorship.
Its true that anyone can make mistakes. Mistakes are required for learning, for updating your beliefs about the world. Trusting yourself doesn't mean believing you're always right. It means running all incoming information thru your own judgement, asking yourself, "does this make sense to me based on what I currently believe?". If it doesn't, reject or at least hold in suspicion the information. Don't accept it just because some supposed authority figure with a big hat on TV told you. Maybe new information comes in later than corroborates it, maybe not. In any case, if you never update your beliefs about something, you have chosen to stop learning about that thing.
The truth is not afraid to be questioned and doesn't need to be supported by censorship.