• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Unless you have direct evidence of that, you shouldn’t believe it.

    That’s a dangerous tack to take.

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      4 months ago

      Such is the consequence of living in a fact based reality as opposed to ones own delusions.

      You get to believe a whole lot less because there is actually very little we have evidence for.

      BUT!

      If we have evidence for it, we should believe it.

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        4 months ago

        Direct evidence is a much higher bar than indirect evidence. There’s a profusion of indirect evidence. Few of us have the capabilities to potentially find direct evidence. And even if we could, we would be expending far more effort researching than they would making new alt accounts.

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              4 months ago

              No, you didn’t.

              You just leaned into your own, lack-of-evidence-based, conclusion that you had made previously.

              That’s not what it takes to live in a fact based reality.

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                4 months ago

                It’s an absolute necessity to do that to live in a fact based reality. People do not have the TIME to exhaustively research every single thing down to base facts. Not to mention the access, ability, finances, etc. Sometimes, hell most of the time, you have to synthesize information and make a judgement call.