big_fat_fluffy to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoYou read an article, written by somebody you never met, accusing a person you never met, citing evidence you never saw. Now you feel angry at the accused person. What does that make you?message-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down150
arrow-up1-35arrow-down1message-squareYou read an article, written by somebody you never met, accusing a person you never met, citing evidence you never saw. Now you feel angry at the accused person. What does that make you?big_fat_fluffy to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squaretomi000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month ago“an authority that you respect”? So truth doesnt matter, just the status of the person stating it? You should rethink your values
minus-squarebig_fat_fluffyOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·1 month agoI said that the word of an authority that I respect would do it. And by “do it” I meant (in reply to [email protected]) that it would justify anger at the accused. That’s pretty far from truth. It’s putting my trust in an authority.
“an authority that you respect”? So truth doesnt matter, just the status of the person stating it? You should rethink your values
I said that the word of an authority that I respect would do it.
And by “do it” I meant (in reply to [email protected]) that it would justify anger at the accused.
That’s pretty far from truth. It’s putting my trust in an authority.