You’re the one putting them on a pedestal and calling them all-powerful. How much mental energy do people expend maintaining a hostile disposition to a legal fi

You’re the one putting them on a pedestal and calling them all-powerful. How much mental energy do people expend maintaining a hostile disposition to a legal fiction? That kind of disposition is as bad for society as the kind that praises corporations and says they can do no wrong, and between the two types, you get a lot of truly terrible ideas that need countering on a recurring and frequent basis. In a competitive information environment, the side which refuses to defend what they deem to be “obvious” will erode over time. Case in point: YouTube doesn’t even make the list for places I would recommend to learn CPR; it’s a for-profit entertainment website before it’s anything else–which is fine for what they want to be. The Red Cross is always at the top of the list though because they’re in the business of saving lives, which is what they want to be. So if you go to the American Red Cross website, there’s this: https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/hands-only-cpr.html https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergen... Third link on the homepage scrolling on my phone. That gives you some simple instructions on CPR, a video which isn’t playing for me because I can’t bring up the playback controls on my phone (they should fix that, it’s crap like this that makes people turn to YouTube in the first place), a zip code search field to find where you can get in-person training, and apparently there’s also an app which I went ahead and installed to my phone which provides you additional instructions and education on how to deal with various kinds of emergencies you might encounter.