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What _should_ happen is that people should not believe allegations that have no evidence. Censorship and defamation law are just patches that we're desperately
by ReactiveJelly 6y ago
What _should_ happen is that people should not believe allegations that have no evidence.
Censorship and defamation law are just patches that we're desperately trying to use to make up for the sad fact that critical thinking was never strong in humans at seemingly any point in known history.
- jkhdigital 6y agoYes, it’s a wonder these idiotic apes somehow created the modern world... We are wired to live in groups of a couple hundred individuals, at most. We can “default to truth” in that setting because all of our interactions are repeated indefinitely over time, and the stable solution to such an iterated prisoners dilemma is to be honest because cheating will be swiftly punished. Mass media, and especially the Internet, breaks all of our social brain circuitry, and that is not a trivial problem to address.
- WaitWaitWha 6y agoWhoa! That is very succinctly stating something that I have been trying to express. Would you happen to have some research reference on this?