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Influence and inform are two sides of the same moral coin, where we claim others ideas aren't their own, whereas we are the virtuous informed ones who draw our
by acyou 3y ago
Influence and inform are two sides of the same moral coin, where we claim others ideas aren't their own, whereas we are the virtuous informed ones who draw our own conclusions.
The low-pass filter of the mind only allows in what fits somewhere inside the existing framework. If you don't reject something, then being informed by it and being influenced by it are the same thing. In that framework, people who claim to be informed come off as high and mighty and a little lacking in self consciousness.
- gpderetta 3y agoI inform, you influence, he propagandizes.
- Turskarama 3y agoDisagree, influencing someone and informing someone are orthogonal. Influencing someone just means changing their behavior and/or beliefs. This can be done with either the truth or lies, or even just opinion (green is better than blue - neither true nor false). Informing someone specifically means giving them true information, which may or may not influence them.
- acyou 3y agoIf we think more along the lines that truth is in itself always a moral judgement, then in that light, influencing and informing again become the same thing. For instance, if I were to say something and you were to disagree, you don't get to say that you're the one that's right and that you're the one that's informing people, and that I'm the evil influencer, without it being a moral judgement. And if you think that you are actually some sort of oracle of truth, then calling your judgements truths is still a moral judgement, predicated on the belief in your infallibility.