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We have to realise the privilege of living during a time when a single piece of evidence could allow us to draw such definitive conclusions. That wasn't the cas
by spuz 2y ago
We have to realise the privilege of living during a time when a single piece of evidence could allow us to draw such definitive conclusions. That wasn't the case until audio and video recordings were invented. We've grown used to shortcutting the standard investigative process of looking at the chain of custody and looking for corroborative
evidence because it's easy to jump to a conclusion when it's almost certainly correct and it means we can do less work.
We now have to adjust our expectations back to when we had to rely on multiple pieces of evidence from multiple sources and evaluating the trustworthiness of those sources before we get out the pitchforks.
- barbariangrunge 2y agoWe’ll, in those olden days, pitchforks came out an inappropriate times fairly often, sometimes literally