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Water is not wet. It's that simple. if you disagree with me you're not a very good person(fact)
by HorkHunter 7y ago
Water is not wet. It's that simple. if you disagree with me you're not a very good person(fact)
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don’t have a problem with you advertising that water is not wet on Facebook using your own money.
- Fnoord 7y agoIt is easily verified to be false. Vaccines causing autism, is more difficult, and requires expertise. That's the problem with fact checking; the material is vastly complex. One way to tackle it is to go after specific claims. Doing that sometimes means quotes are taken out of context.
- jfengel 7y agoI'd have a problem with it if it was part of a campaign to replace all water with Gatorade. People spending their money to be publicly stupid is not a problem, but people spending their money to make other people be stupid in ways that impact my life is. Our democratic policy is resilient against a certain level of deliberately-induced stupidity, since stupidity does tend to be self-defeating. But at sufficient levels, it can do a lot of damage to everybody else before it finally defeats itself. I'm not saying that this can be fixed by the trivial addition of fact checkers. But I don't think that "it's your money" is sufficient reason not to try various solutions. Your right to swing your money around ends where my nose begins.
- chrisseaton 7y agoCan you not just disagree with it? Why do you need to ban it?
- jfengel 7y agoI didn't say "ban it". I said that a variety of options were on the table. As for disagreeing with it... I can disagree with it until it takes on the force of law. Then I'm required to agree with it, or at least, to live with the consequences. Political speech takes on an aspect of force in a way that other speech doesn't.