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That's completely pedantic and besides it's false because there literally wasn't a wolf there where he faked the photo in the first place
by weird-eye-issue 6mo ago
That's completely pedantic and besides it's false because there literally wasn't a wolf there where he faked the photo in the first place
- croes 6mo agoCrying wolf is crying for help when there is no danger not when there is a danger just at different place. That's not pedantic, that's the meaning of the idiom.
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoThis is real life there's always a danger just at a different place.
- fc417fc802 6mo agoIf you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection.
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- croes 6mo agoBut this isn't a false alert. The alert is real, people just got misdirected.
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoIt was a false alert in that particular place. I doubt those residents who were alerted had felt like they were previously in immediate danger.
- tokai 6mo agoYou don't get to chose pedanticism when it suits you. Please stop.
- debo_ 6mo agoNot pedanticism. Pedantry. /joke
- sebastiennight 6mo agoThink of it like this: if this same story was happening a couple of centuries ago, pre-Internet, this person who just got arrested would have been sitting at their balcony, crying "the wolf is here! down at the intersection!" ; causing the hunting team to waste time.
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- fc417fc802 6mo agoWell it's definitely a false alert but I think maybe I see what's bugging you. If an enemy agent intentionally did that with the goal of disrupting operations we'd call it misdirection and it seems a bit silly in that scenario to also categorize it as crying wolf. Since there's an ongoing search that the guy was aware of you view this the same way. But have you considered that the criteria arose organically as opposed to being engineered top down to account for edge cases such as this? I think in practice the term can probably apply to any instance where you might consider the longer term reputation of an individual or group that is separate from the response team. Basically you've decided the two things must be mutually exclusive but haven't provided any reasoning or precedent for that constraint.
- DANmode 6mo agoMust not have paid close attention to the details of the story.
- bryanrasmussen 6mo agowhat if the real criers of wolves were the sheeple we misled along the way?