How often do you use this alibi? HUMANS AS WE ARE..we make mistakes

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" I'm sorry for the mistake i made.Humans as we are we are prone to mistakes.." This used to be my popular excuse whenever i make mistakes way back in high school. This alibi caught my attention yesterday as I read a reply from one of my staff to a memo sent to her by the HR dept,reprimanding her to justify the errors she made on her calculations at work. The alibi "Humans as we are, we're prone to mistakes.." was how she ended up her reply. When my eyes touched down on that line, it made me smile and think on the current strength and popularity of this alibi. My thoughts pondered on it.. "humans as we are" --a common and easy alibi--which has caused plenty of wrong decisions. One of which led to huge human cost to disaster,like the war in Iraq. On this line of perception, though it is a good excuse, it is not always a good alibi. We can't always point to our being humans as the reason why we make mistakes. Maybe, there are several rooms for improvements and considerations along the way but leaning on our being humans could'nt always be rationalized with the errors we commit in life.