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>>The way to combat false ideas is with truth This is extremely naive. As the saying goes, a lie can go around the world before the truth can finish putting on
by enraged_camel 8y ago
>>The way to combat false ideas is with truth
This is extremely naive. As the saying goes, a lie can go around the world before the truth can finish putting on its shoes.
edit: maybe rather than downvoting (which is a type of censorship) y’all should provide a response.
- tomp 8y agoI don’t think bad feelings count for “actively harmful”. Also, you can always just not read the internet to avoid bad feelings. NSA surveillance was a conspiracy theory before Snowden, so I don’t think the “conspiracy theory” accusation warrants censorship.
- repolfx 8y agoI don't think citing a random saying is a great way to rebut an argument, let alone support a claim of naivety. Here's another saying for you: you can fool some people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. In other words, eventually the truth wins out. I guess our sayings cancel out.