One of the most common errors in judging a matter true or false has nothing to do with truth and error but personal preference, based on the happenstance of one’s experience. Most people prefer the positive (emotions, discourse, memes, etc.) not because the positive is objectively superior to the negative but because we like to feel good. A man holds a bias against forgetting and for remembering not because he believes memory is virtuous but because he has enjoyed a good life with a loving family. A woman is focused on the future not because she believes the time to come is guaranteed gold but because her past seems filled with so much pain. We label something, anything, as better or worse, right or wrong, good or bad, true or false, not according to a law but an inkling, derived from life’s emphasis upon us, whether kind or cruel, nurturing or neglectful, brilliant or at times indifferent, absorbed through osmosis according to the company we keep, environments we inherit, and countless elements outside our control. At the very least this should give us cause for pause when judging. Awareness of one’s emphasis and bias in matters is a safeguard against hubris. Nothing is certain, even this statement, and these very words are thus undone by the point they have made, a splendid irony, indeed.