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If they are lies then why can't they be refuted instead of suppressed?

• xxpor 6y ago
  This was my attitude too until about 3 years ago. But we're dealing with a group of people who genuinely believe that Trump is saving the world from a cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles, and if Biden becomes president they'll all be carted off to FEMA camps. How do you reason with someone like that?
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > If they are lies then why can't they be refuted instead of suppressed? It's harder to refute lies in the marketplace of ideas if everyone with a megaphone is obligated to echo them. Perhaps this wouldn't be true if people were perfectly rational, but if people were perfectly rational they wouldn't be believing and spreading lies in the first place.
• pixl97 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law >Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage which emphasizes the difficulty of debunking bullshit: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."