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Someone asked me on social media about the phrase,
“benefit of the doubt”. What does it mean and how
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to use it? So this just means that you trust
somebody even if you're not sure, you can’t
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prove that what they're saying is correct. For
example, somebody took my wallet from a party,
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accidentally picked it up, thought it was
theirs. Now, I'm not sure if that's true,
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but I'm going to give that person the benefit
of the doubt. I'm going to go ahead and believe
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that person. Here's another example, let's say my
husband hated my sunglasses and then, oops, one
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day he breaks them. Now, I could think, hmm, did
he break them because he hates them? I could think
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that, but you know what, in order to just have
more ease in my relationship I'm going to give
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my husband the benefit of the doubt and I'm
going to assume that he broke them on accident.
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