@big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months 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-square42fedilinkarrow-up116
arrow-up116message-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 • 4 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-square@big_fat_fluffy@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoHearsay constitutes weak evidence.
minus-square@TootSweet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•4 months agoWhat’s the minimum you’d count as strong enough evidence to justify anger at the accused?
minus-square@big_fat_fluffy@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months ago(Disregard that pm, wrong community) The word of an authority that I respect would do it.
minus-square@tomi000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•4 months ago“an authority that you respect”? So truth doesnt matter, just the status of the person stating it? You should rethink your values
minus-square@big_fat_fluffy@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months 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.
Hearsay constitutes weak evidence.
What’s the minimum you’d count as strong enough evidence to justify anger at the accused?
(Disregard that pm, wrong community)
The word of an authority that I respect would do it.
“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.