Judging Puce

Ernie the Attorney states precisely something I’ve tried to get across about a lawyer’s need to decide and act in a world filled with ambiguity:

As a lawyer, I’m perfectly comfortable with conflicting information. The remedy for conflicting information is not to try to eliminate “flawed sources,” but to think critically about all sources of information that you encounter.

And then he illustrates his satisfaction with Wikipedia by discussing its definition of the color “puce,” making clear all the while that he understand there’s some dispute whether the color Wikipedia calls puce really is puce.