@[email protected] to Ask LemmyEnglish • 22 hours 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-square39fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down144
arrow-up1-32arrow-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?@[email protected] to Ask LemmyEnglish • 22 hours agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish-1•5 hours ago(Disregard that pm, wrong community) The word of an authority that I respect would do it.
minus-square@tomi000link2•3 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-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 hours 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.
(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 [email protected]) that it would justify anger at the accused.
That’s pretty far from truth. It’s putting my trust in an authority.