big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day 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-square41fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down144
arrow-up1-31arrow-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@leminal.space to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squaretomi000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 hours 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_fluffy@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·15 hours agoI said that the word of an authority that I respect would do it. And by “do it” I meant (in reply to TootSweet@lemmy.world) 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 TootSweet@lemmy.world) that it would justify anger at the accused.
That’s pretty far from truth. It’s putting my trust in an authority.