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It's not bad faith when it's a legitimate request, which depends on the assertion. If I say the sky is blue because of plane chemtrails, and you ask me for a s

by ethbr1 1y ago

It's not bad faith when it's a legitimate request, which depends on the assertion. If I say the sky is blue because of plane chemtrails, and you ask me for a source, that seems valid. As with any large procurement system, there is moderate government waste in proportional terms, but one of the primary drivers of that waste is... anti-corruption systems operating as intended. If you require 4 more forms than private sector, in order to be more sure there isn't corruption, then you've just imposed a cost that creates no value.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>It's not bad faith when it's a legitimate request, which depends on the assertion. No offence, but comparing asking for proof of corruption with proof of sky being blue of petrochemicals is a biased bad faith argument. Asking for sources on corruption is more like asking for proof that the earth is round, which is definitely not a legitimate request, but more trolling masquerading like an innocent request and dodge scrutiny ("It's just a question bro, why r u mad lol"). Nothing wrong with asking such a question per-se, but that's something you can also google yourself due to countless occurrences from legitimate sources, hence why it's in bad faith to ask such a thing from others, and should be more strictly moderated as many here abuse this "sauce or gtfo" attitude in bad faith to discredit a pov without providing any arguments.
- ethbr1 1y ago
  > Asking for sources on corruption Existence of corruption isn't what you asserted. >> how much taxpayer money governments loose via waste and corruption That's the assertion you made -- waste and corruption at scale. It's very much a reasonable question to ask for sources of how much there actually is. Otherwise, people just post things on the internet insinuating that there's a huge (unspecified) amount. Is it 1% of the budget? 5%? 25%? (Hint: it should be trivial for you, the claimant, to dig up a source. And it's close to one of those)
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by ethbr1 1y ago

FirmwareBurner 1y ago

>It's not bad faith when it's a legitimate request, which depends on the assertion. No offence, but comparing asking for proof of corruption with proof of sky being blue of petrochemicals is a biased bad faith argument. Asking for sources on corruption is more like asking for proof that the earth is round, which is definitely not a legitimate request, but more trolling masquerading like an innocent request and dodge scrutiny ("It's just a question bro, why r u mad lol"). Nothing wrong with asking such a question per-se, but that's something you can also google yourself due to countless occurrences from legitimate sources, hence why it's in bad faith to ask such a thing from others, and should be more strictly moderated as many here abuse this "sauce or gtfo" attitude in bad faith to discredit a pov without providing any arguments.

ethbr1 1y ago
> Asking for sources on corruption Existence of corruption isn't what you asserted. >> how much taxpayer money governments loose via waste and corruption That's the assertion you made -- waste and corruption at scale. It's very much a reasonable question to ask for sources of how much there actually is. Otherwise, people just post things on the internet insinuating that there's a huge (unspecified) amount. Is it 1% of the budget? 5%? 25%? (Hint: it should be trivial for you, the claimant, to dig up a source. And it's close to one of those)

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