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| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 04, 2020, 12:54:00 am ---Ofcourse you are entitled to your opinion but don't get fooled by people who serve carefully selected footage to paint a general picture showing nothing is going on. The world's economy hasn't been halted for a fire drill! --- End quote --- You're making a mistake in assuming that any rational argument is going to make a dent in the belief system of the committed conspiracy fan. That everybody in the world is hunkered down in their homes is, to them, evidence that they are right. Because that's what the government wants. To them this is evidence that the government have some nefarious plan that requires trashing the world's economy for god knows how many months. That this would require an effective conspiracy to be driving the actions all the governments in the world is, to them, entirely believable. To them Occam's Razor is something that the Men In Black use on your throat when you get too close to the government's secrets. You are dealing with people who do not and will not approach the subject with rational thinking and dealing with them on the basis that they will see sense is futile. |
| hwj-d:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 04, 2020, 01:47:32 am --- --- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 04, 2020, 01:39:19 am ---For instance, our privacy is being massively eroded in the name of tracing infections. On the one had that's a good use of information, but on the other it's a very slippery slope. At the end (if there is an end!) it's likely that most of these privacy invasions will have become the norm and will stick around. Some of these emergency laws won't be repealed, etc. All our governments have lots of form for doing that, but what they are doing is taking advantage of a situation. --- End quote --- I mentioned my pessimistic fear of this in several posts, and I agree with you here. Some people (I don't blame them!) are trying to see the positive in all this and how it could change things for the better in the end - I unfortunately have little hope of that. As I said earlier, just like what happened with our fight against terrorism, it's extremely likely that our privacy AND freedom are going to be severely eroded for quite a while (in the optimistic scenario), and possibly for a very long time otherwise. --- End quote --- Where the likely possibility is, to push the whole pandemic hype even further. |
| hwj-d:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on April 04, 2020, 02:03:56 am --- --- Quote from: nctnico on April 04, 2020, 12:54:00 am ---Ofcourse you are entitled to your opinion but don't get fooled by people who serve carefully selected footage to paint a general picture showing nothing is going on. The world's economy hasn't been halted for a fire drill! --- End quote --- You're making a mistake in assuming that any rational argument is going to make a dent in the belief system of the committed conspiracy fan. That everybody in the world is hunkered down in their homes is, to them, evidence that they are right. Because that's what the government wants. To them this is evidence that the government have some nefarious plan that requires trashing the world's economy for god knows how many months. That this would require an effective conspiracy to be driving the actions all the governments in the world is, to them, entirely believable. To them Occam's Razor is something that the Men In Black use on your throat when you get too close to the government's secrets. You are dealing with people who do not and will not approach the subject with rational thinking and dealing with them on the basis that they will see sense is futile. --- End quote --- So much hate? God have mercy on your poor soul. :) |
| Nusa:
I'm having great difficulty distinguishing the trolls from the pot-stirrers, personally. |
| hwj-d:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 04, 2020, 01:39:19 am --- --- Quote ---look into the analysis of Amazing Polly --- End quote --- Don't have time or the willpower to sit through multiple half-hour videos. If they have something important or useful to say then write it down. If they can't be arsed to do that, because videos are easy, it's not worth my time either. ... --- End quote --- Somewhat strange view of appreciating the effort of gathering information, don't you think? After all, all you have to do is listen to, and think about it. |
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