The Western way of handling error as a philosophical subject is based
on filtering out the mistakes of logical deduction based on their
external properties; filtering false steps generated by the faulty
reasoner; diagnosing the problems in a proof; correcting written work;
and generating a mathematical (externalized) theory of correct step
generation, capable of being run on a computer; whereas

The Eastern way of handling error as a subject is based on understanding
the internal process that generated the mistake; documenting how others
have made the same mistake before; prescribing useless activity directed
at correcting the mistake (such as chanting; probably to occupy a
brain task network with something primed to prompt the frontal lobe to
re-evaluate the source of the mistake repeatedly, to allow the emotional
intensity to diminish from repetition and stop interrupting the flow
of thought; a "time out"; a sensory deprivation session; time to think
about what you did).

The Eastern way is "right" in that the mental processing is literally
not possible physically without the allocation of time; and it must be
nonrationally guided to reliability; because we are trying to break
a causal loop or kill a kind of organism that resists death. Even
though it is a virtual organism, it must be killed so its will must be
overcome.

Western and Eastern aren't really the division here when it comes
to practice; I am only talking about what is accepted as academic
philosophy in Western universities.  All of the Eastern ideas must
already exist in the West in equivalents, but Western authority has
suppressed them, made them noncanonical approaches.  It is obvious how
what I call "The Western way" is the way of those whose children are
made to obey and listen and believe.

Focusing on one step at a time instead of the big picture allows
those same errors to be made at other times when the special-care
logic-filtering "task network" isn't activated.  Reshaping the generator
prevents entire classes of errors from being generated in the first
place.

Those errors may be parts of the system that _it_ defends with _its_
will!

Eastern societies are not essentially better. Like Western authorities,
Eastern authorities employ hypocrisy to sustain capitalism and keep the
powerful predators safely fed.  Moral principles are never socially
useful, because these principles are words, and hypocrisy shows that
words are capable of construction without correlation to actions.
Morals exist on the linguistic plane, not the behavioral plane; the
frontal lobe may inhibit or activate various behavioral patterns; the
pattern of producing prohibitory words in the linguistic generator
is not well correlated with the pattern of restricting the behavior
according to the content of those words.  You cannot just "tell
yourself" not to do something.  You need to analyze your intentions and
unerstand why you are doing it.  You either have completed the process
or you haven't.  You either change your intentions or you don't.