Benefit of the Benefit of the Doubt

When an issue is brought up about someone, all that is being said is that someone believes something has happened that is felt was not the correct thing to so. At this particular time there is one thing that has happened on one day usually by one person. If this is the first time that a mistake might have happened then a person deserves what we call the benefit of the doubt. First of all this implies that it will never be known if someone did something wrong or not, almost like circumstantial evidence. It is more of a feeling that the person did a wrong act.

Unless of course it is an eye witness account and even here people view things differently and can be wrong. So in this case especially in the first reaction there should be no judgments. There needs to be a little investigation, if you will, getting as much information as possible. The more information the more the truth of what happened will come out.

But the simple notion of a benefit of the doubt says a wonderful occurrence. It says that maybe a mistake was made but we are going to look at it as a mistake. Further we are going to believe that the person making the mistake not only realizes it was a mistake, but there is trust that the lesson has been learned. If a person is made to feel that everyone has lost trust there is no reason to correct the behavior. Instead benefit of the doubt says that if there is not surety that a person is guilty of a wrong that needs to be corrected,it will be looked at as everyone knows the right thing to do for the next time. So there is no punishment necessary this time.

Benefit of the doubt mentality is very good because it gives a person another chance. Even on those times that a person did do it and lied about it in most cases will at the very least get that person to think about what was done. In this respect the problem often times does not happen again.

Even if someone does get away with something that will soon become evident because a pattern will occur. The the steps can be taken to fix this. But to make sure there is not an over reaction when a mistake is made for the first time the use of benefit of the doubt is a way to have what could be a lesson that is beneficial. A mistake does not necessarily have to feel like a person is bad and in fact should not do this. Especially on a first occurrence a person should be allowed to learn and start over


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Liz Cosline Life Ownership Coach:

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