so, the rabbi tells hershel in the case of hershel versus krantz, "you're right; he's wrong." he then turns to krantz and "Mr. Krantz, you're right; he's wrong." the rabbi's assistant pulls the venerable rabbi over and asks him, "how can you tell both hershel and krantz they're right and the other one's wrong? it's an intellectual copout," (though one wonders if in the original yiddish version of this story the term 'copout' was used. The rabbi thinks a minute and turns to his assistant: "you're right - i'm wrong," and continues to tell the two supplicants the exact opposite ofwhat hehad previously claimed.
it's well-founded paranoia - just because you're parnaoid doesnt mean you're wrong.