Thread by @sometimesalight

Follow this thread backwards for more clarity on short selling. My thread yesterday was, at best, imprecise & most likely, flat-out wrong. Plus Angela has made graphics!

https://twitter.com/ImAngelaPangela/status/1354866234504990721

Here's the benefit of having written books on both humility & discernment: There's just no escaping. I spoke out of ignorance & that ignorance led me to overconfidence in my opinion. You simply can't know what you don't know.

This is a good example of staying in one's lane. One might understand what healthy, ethical dynamics look like in general, but that doesn't mean they can look at a certain phenomenon & pronounce it healthy or unhealthy. To do that, you must have knowledge of phenomenon itself.

Insofar as you're uninformed, misinformed, or simply ignorant of a certain thing, you can't reasonably pronounce judgment on it even if you know what goodness looks like more universally.

"Stay in your lane" =/= "you don't know what good & evil look like." It means: "You don't know enough about XYZ to assess good & evil here."

All of us practicing theology in a public way *must* understand this.

Instead, we must ask questions first, be willing to hear & be corrected, & learn. We can contribute our knowledge to the situation, especially if we understand what good & evil look like in principle. But this knowledge alone doesn't equip us to evaluate a specific phenomenon.

So get used to saying these things:

"I don't know enough about XYZ..."
"Can you tell me more?"
"I know this principle from Scripture--do you think it applies here?"
"Thank you for helping me understand."

and of course, the perennial favorite...

"I was wrong."

One more thing: It is not enough to believe that a larger thing likely has unjust elements to it (stock market) & to use that as cover when we get *specific* things wrong.

In this case, it's probably true that plenty of folks manipulate short selling in order to benefit from another person's loss. It is not accurate to say that short selling is always & only doing this. The difference is significant.