Justice requires patience because outrage prefers immediate certainty.

Outrage wants a conclusion now, and accuracy usually needs more time than that. Facts arrive out of order, early accounts are often wrong in important ways, and the pressure to have a position immediately is what produces the positions people later quietly abandon. Patience feels like weakness and is usually just accuracy.

When something happens that demands a reaction, allow yourself to say you do not know yet. Give it a few days. Very little is lost by waiting, and quite a lot is often gained.