Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.
We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.
I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.