Humility. Benefit of the doubt. Forgiveness.

I think of all the possible ways that life for humans could improve, one of the most impactful would be for more people to believe and internalize the idea that none of us are pure good or pure evil, that we are all shades of gray, and that we do better at some times than others, both at correctly identifying what is good, and at doing it when we know what it is.

(Is that one idea? Maybe it's a bunch of them. Just go with me here.)

It's hard do this because it turns out we are often wrong about when we are being/doing good. We know this, because sometimes we can plainly see in retrospect how wrong we were, despite how confident we felt about our wrongness at the time.

Humility. Benefit of the doubt. Forgiveness. I need to give these things to others, because I need them myself.