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Was there an age when people blindly trusted everything they read? Healthy skepticism can be a very good thing.
by SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
Was there an age when people blindly trusted everything they read? Healthy skepticism can be a very good thing.
- MarsAscendant 8y agoIt's taking things to an extreme – like automatically mistrusting the source because it seems to attempt playing the reader's heartstrings – that's a defining characteristic of the Internet era. Not everyone makes up their stories, and not nearly everyone is lying – but there are people who will abuse the natural trust people exhibit, and take the profits into their pockets, as opposed to helping their fictional cause. It's so prominent because there's a whole lot of people who do that. Similar to the "vocal minority" phenomenon, people start assuming that everyone in the same group is <something>, regardless of how valid the assumption is, because of the exposure towards a certain kind of the group's members.