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Do you think the education level is adequate enough to protect against people constantly propagating lies?
by andy_ppp 7y ago
Do you think the education level is adequate enough to protect against people constantly propagating lies?
- leereeves 7y agoIf you want someone to decide what's true because you believe the people aren't capable of doing so for themselves, you've already given up on democracy.
- andy_ppp 7y agoI would like there to be better education and yes, some kind of authority that we can warn people that the information has been reviewed and is likely to be incorrect or lies. Objective reality does exist as does scientific concensus on for example climate change.
- leereeves 7y agoFact checkers and scientists already exist, but in a democracy, the people have the right to choose whether to listen to them or not. Are you saying you'd prefer that people be forced to follow their decisions? Or that information they declare "incorrect" be banned? That's not democratic, that's authoritarian.
- ohithereyou 7y agoPer my parent post: >Most western democracies long since scrapped proper education because it's easier to win the support of the population with propaganda^H public relations than it is to make a reasoned argument. In my mind, the correct response to the rise of FAKE NEWS (aka: yellow journalism, sensationalism, propaganda, public relations, advertisement) is to focus on teaching critical thinking skills, not to have a censor that says 'You can say this thing but not that thing'. Will bad people have harmful, self serving opinions? Yes, they will. That's part and parcel of living in a free society.