Getting It Wrong

One of the key principles of maths when you are learning it is that you will get it wrong. Very often.

There is nothing "moral" about this.

If you have never been taught it properly — working up from ground principles to the more complex ones that stack on top of it — this is especially true: you will get it wrong a lot.

But this doesn't mean anything else beyond the fact that more study, more instruction, more practice is necessary.

One of the core reasons for stopping to call relational principles "moral" or "immoral" is that moral carries the connotation of being "good" or "bad."

Nothing is harder to contemplate and troubleshoot than when the implications are so severe.

Consider instead the alternative: seeing it as principles that we strive to understand better and respect — in our lives, our workings, and in anything we are trying to create — if we want it to stand.