People Make Mistakes
This cluster features comments normalizing and defending human errors, emphasizing that everyone makes mistakes, often in response to criticism of a specific incident or failure in a technical or professional context.
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Sometimes people make mistakes.
People make mistakes. That is all.
Humans miss things all the time. It's okay to make mistakes.
It's only a "mistake" when they get caught.
People make all kinds of mistakes.
Uh, it's called a mistake. Smart people make them too.
This just in: people make mistakes on occasion.
Remember you make mistakes too [citation needed]
People who do things make mistakes. It's the ones who don't make mistakes that should be of concern.
Everyone makes mistakes, it's good to admit them.