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There are a lot of cases where truth and falsehood are absolute. Those cases where something is provably false should be called out as such. Think of something
by web007 8y ago
There are a lot of cases where truth and falsehood are absolute. Those cases where something is provably false should be called out as such.
Think of something like Pizzagate - the fact that the restaurant in question didn't have a basement belied the assertions that bad things were happening in said basement. Any article or comment that passed on that provable lie should be flagged as a lie.
Sure, there are grey areas beyond that. Those are opinions, and should be separable from facts.
- cabalamat 8y ago> There are a lot of cases where truth and falsehood are absolute Sure, but for most contentious political issues, this is not the case.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> There are a lot of cases where truth and falsehood are absolute Truth and falsehood are absolute for pretty much all fact claims. Whether they can easily by determined is another story. > Think of something like Pizzagate - the fact that the restaurant in question didn't have a basement belied the assertions that bad things were happening in said basement. Sure, but suppose (they weren't, by for sake of illustrating the problem) bad things were happening in, say, a attached a controlled by the owners of the restaurant, but somehiw as the story got out and before it was fixed in text, it was distorted so that it referred to a non-existent basement instead. Would actively suppressing the story because of the impossible location described really be in the public interest? Sure, in strict terms any single factual error in the most involved story makes the story false. But, most accounts will accumulate some false elements in a complex story: there has to be consideration of importance and materiality.