Crime is Pride

Saying that crime is pride is in my opinion completely false. If every paused to process things he did in his life to see if he was on the right course instead of making mistakes our world would not be where it is today. In Ruth Wakefield realized before she started baking that she was out of baker’s chocolate, she would not have broken sweetened chocolate into pieces and put them in her cookie dough; and we would be left in a world without chocolate chip cookies. Mistakes aren’t a bad thing and sometimes being bull-headed and willing to mess up is a positive things. Stopping to analyze every situation doesn’t make you smarter than everyone, it makes you a coward.

“A good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil” implies that you are only good if you realize you are making a mistake and make an effort to correct it. Sir Alexander Fleming tried this when he realized that he made a mistake in his experiment and threw it out. Thankfully for everyone, he later noticed that his “accident” was dissolving all of the bacteria around it and gave it a second look, therefore discovering penicillin. What if Fleming had just “repaired the evil”, left his petri dish in the garbage and started over the way he planned? So many good things come out of taking a different course than planned and staying on that course even when you know it’s wrong, while not always smart, is commendable.

We learn we take the wrong path, or make a mistake. We know what went wrong. We know what to change next time. A person who had never studied before, and then failed their first college exam learned something after that test. They learned that they have to study and can’t just remember everything from class. Even though that person was clearly aware that they were taking a path considered to be wrong, they took it anyway and learned something from it. If they had realized their “course was wrong” and studied before the exam, they may have ever learned the importance of studying and just done it as a formality. That failed test gave that person new insight and knowledge that may have not had before which I personally feel is more useful than never doing anything wrong in the first place.

Taking the path less traveled, while not the popular thing to do, can sometimes be the most beneficial. If we stop, analyze, and “repair the evil” of every single thing we did, we would never learn. Mistakes are a part of life and people need to be afraid to make them and push forward, regardless. Pride is not crime, cowardice is.