People attempting to improve themselves and the world must face the fact that improvement necessarily requires accepting that one is imperfect, since if one w

People attempting to improve themselves and the world must face the fact that improvement necessarily requires accepting that one is imperfect, since if one was perfect one could not improve. > Design patterns show up across all "industries." Strong agree, and I would argue that even if antiracism philosophy did not come from christianity it would likely arrive at a similar point due to the nature of the problem. Any sort of hill climbing algorithm that does not assume original sin is very unlikely to be effective. I do think it is worth focusing on what one is doing right as well as what one is doing wrong. Turning a bad behavior (-1) into a good behavior (+1) is a 2 point improvement, whereas just improving a good behavior (+1) is only an increase of 1. However it is often easier psychologically to improve what you do well then to face your weaknesses and biases.