Of course admitting faults does not make you a weaker person. To suggest such would be to suggest that admitting a nation has a national debt makes it a weaker nation, or that admitting a sport team has had some losses of late makes it a weaker team. Admitting something is stating something, and by stating something you are not making the situation as you state it, but describing the situation.

One who knows ones limitations is more likely stronger, or at any rate, better at adapting to change than one who does not. One who maintains an invincible view of themself will overestimate their ability to cope with various situations and will thus be taken aback by these situations when they arise, and be less prepared to face them. Whereas one who is aware of their limitations and weaknesses can prepare better for such situations, and when they arise will be better equipped to confront them.

It is a mistake to confuse upstandingness with idealism or optimism. First let us remember that to be optimistic means you expect good things to happen, to be pessimistic means you expect bad things to happen, and to be realistic means you expect nothing to happen except what is based upon facts and actual observation. Thus to be upstanding, to try ones best, to fight well in life, is not to be optimistic. One could enter a court room knowing there is little chance of victory over ones opponent, but one will both as a matter of necessity and principle do ones best to fight them.

Upstandingness, that is, trying ones best, therefore is not optimism, or expecting victory in life’s struggles. To be aware of ones weaknesses is a good thing, for it allows one to calculate roughly what to do in a situation, whereas calculations made upon a invincible view of oneself or even an overestimated view of a lesser nature would be erroneous. Thus whilst it is best to remain upstanding, to hold on till the bitter end come hell or high water, one should also admit ones weaknesses. To overestimate oneself is no different than to underestimate ones opponent, and this is never a good thing.

Thus to suggest that by admitting ones faults and weaknesses one is made the weaker in the process is preposterous. Anybody who believes this to be a fact surely must operate by this system themselves, and surely must be the worser for it. Thus one should always observe oneself realistically, but to try ones best however weak one may be, as a matter of principle. After all to give up due to some scientific limitation would be to admit that science is superior to oneself, and to submit like a coward to the forces, those unworthy savage Darwinian forces, of science. One must fight science till the bitter end, even if the worthy side shall not have victory.