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Every story has a million ways to tell it, they are all biased, there is no universal truth even if every word of the story is true and nothing factual has been
by PaulKeeble 6y ago
Every story has a million ways to tell it, they are all biased, there is no universal truth even if every word of the story is true and nothing factual has been left out. Facts can be misleading also, context not to do with the story can matter a lot.
I am not even sure how I would go about determining most political news is true or factual, even the speeches are usually cut down to snippets for the news. Bias is everywhere and to determine something is even largely true is an enormous amount of work going back to the original source.
A recent example is a Green party female member in the House of Lords who said that all men should be under curfew to protect women from being attacked at mogjt. Literally what she said, but not what she meant at all because the context was after the police said women should stay home at night for their own safety. Without the context its true, but its also misleading. As is my portrayal of the story, as was every news article about it. No idea how you fix it, language needs to be more facts based as does our culture and even then you are chasing more correct not literally true.
- birdyrooster 6y agoUniversal truth would require creating quorum with billions of people simultaneously.
- sebmellen 6y agoEven that might not be universal truth. Billions of Hindus would disagree with billions of Muslims who would disagree with billions of Christians, who would disagree with billions of unaffiliated people/atheists.
- birdyrooster 6y agoRight, I was making the assumption this problem was solvable and that the contradictory ideas could be hashed out. You can imagine that happening with a single Muslim and a single Christian, it happens all the time that people have conversions with a close friend. The critique I pose is of scale.
- edbob 6y agoThis is an extremely dangerous conception of truth. Even when practically everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth, the one guy that didn't was still correct. Yet he was pretty likely to be oppressed or killed for having heterodox views and had best keep his mouth shut. I'm sure there are many popular ideas now that are believed by a supermajority (or even 95%+) of the population which are actually incorrect, although I can't say what the correct ideas are or whether they will ever become popular.
- birdyrooster 6y agoTruth is inherently human, we cannot conceive of a truth that isn't humancentric.
- edbob 6y agoPerhaps you cannot, but I can.
- IncRnd 6y agoThat's silly. Something that is universal and true requires no consensus.