> At some point you have to trust people. This is true in some respects, yes. For example, I have to trust that the supply chain that brings food to my local g

> At some point you have to trust people. This is true in some respects, yes. For example, I have to trust that the supply chain that brings food to my local grocery store isn't introducing toxic substances into the food, so when I open a package of food and prepare and eat it, I'm not poisoning myself. I can't possibly fact check all of the steps in that supply chain. The best I can do is to keep track of which sources have a track record of trustworthy behavior as far as I can see it. However, the scope of things for which I have to trust other people is much narrower than most people appear to think. For example: > have you even been to Finland? According to your philosophy you don't know if it exists then. My question is, why should I care? What part of my essential life activities do I have to condition on whether or not Finland exists, or what it is like? If there are people living in Finland, of course they care, but they're there--they can see for themselves that Finland exists and what it is like. But for me, in the US, unless I am planning to travel to Finland, I have no reason to care who is a trustworthy source of information about Finland and who isn't. Even if I buy products from Finland, I can judge their quality by the same means that I judge my local grocery store; I don't have to know what Finland in general is like, or if it even exists. Maybe the products that are labeled "Made in Finland" are actually made by some high-tech automated factory on a seasteading platform in the Atlantic. If they meet my requirements for quality and price, why should I care? This same reasoning applies to much, if not most, of the information we are inundated with in our daily lives: we don't actually need to have an opinion at all about how trustworthy it is, because it doesn't affect any choices we are actually going to make. We could just ignore it and it wouldn't make a difference to our actual lives. It only makes a difference because we are surrounded by governments and media organizations who have an interest in manipulating what we think, and one of the ways they do that is by trying to convince us that we do need to have strong opinions about all kinds of things that we actually don't.