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> we've (society) been purchasing tons and tons of a product for who knows how long that has been inauthentic, without any idea that it was the case Also, when
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
> we've (society) been purchasing tons and tons of a product for who knows how long that has been inauthentic, without any idea that it was the case
Also, whenever this happens, one should stop and consider:
"Why are we buying aloe vera products in the first place, when millions of people using the product for years are unable to detect that it's fake?"
If this happened with something tangible, say replacing all regular coke with diet coke without changing the labels, it would be noticed immediately.
Whenever people buy something which they are completely unable to differentiate from a fake, are they really being defrauded when someone sells them the fake?
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- klagermkii 10y ago> Whenever people buy something which they are completely unable to differentiate from a fake, are they really being defrauded when someone sells them the fake? Yes.
- mzw_mzw 10y agoI think the point was that the real thing is just as much (or as little) of a fraud as the fake is.
- aarongolliver 10y agoEspecially because, if someone's been buying fakes all their life, how could they possibly know what real Aloe is like?
- burkaman 10y agoWhat if it was something like soap? How could you possibly tell if you were buying fake soap? If you get sick, do you immediately suspect that your soap supplier has defrauded you?
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoThere is a difference between fake and dangerous.
- albedoa 10y agoWhenever people buy something which they are completely unable to differentiate from a fake, are they really being defrauded when someone sells them the fake? You are seriously confusing the placebo effect with ignorance of the expected effect. It is fraud not because the user perceives the expected effect but because the user has been told that the perceived effect is the expected one.
- kcanini 10y ago> Whenever people buy something which they are completely unable to differentiate from a fake, are they really being defrauded when someone sells them the fake? Yes.