When You Should Admit When You Are Wrong

There's pride and humility. When someone makes a mistake, we can tell which one of these categories that person's character falls under. It's only one or the other. Or is it?

If you are in a job environment, then actively admitting to your mistakes could make you look incompetent. Then who wants to assign projects to the person who will mess things up?

If you wrong your friends and show no repentance, then why would they want to continue to be around you only to receive that same type of treatment?

Give a situation where you messed up, whether it's with family, friends, work, sports, church,... any community of people. What did you do?

• Did you admit you were wrong to the parties involved?
• How did people respond to what you decided to do? Did they think better or worse of you?
• Do you think the choice you made was the best option? If not what would you have done differently?
• What was the distinguishing factor for this moment that made you choose to admit or not to admit you were wrong?
• Finally, if you were to switch places with a person in the offended party, then do you think you would classify their choice as either being prideful or humble? Or would you see an alternative motive, perhaps based on their goals or personality?

Try to answer at least one of the questions above based on how relevant it is to your scenario (You don't need to answer all). What I'm looking for are rules, cases, or exceptions to your moral compass on this generic issue. Kind of as a joke, I'd like to point to Uncle Iroh in "Avatar the last Air bender" as an example. "It is usually best to admit mistakes when they occur, and to seek to restore honor.... But not this time. Run!"