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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (130696)4/30/2004 5:42:10 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Trusting no one is not a matter of thinking for yourself, but of the cessation of thought. Much of what we do is evaluate the reliability of sources of information. If we did not by and large trust our textbooks and teachers to be accurate an overwhelming proportion of the time, we would learn nothing. We are not even in a position to independently verify the science that we learned, certainly not until we have access to university level laboratories, and even then, we cannot examine everything for ourselves. If we did not make judgments, well or ill, about news sources, we would not be talking about any of this, because we have to rely on someone to inform us of current events. What you are saying is inherently absurd. Obviously, considering the amount of intelligence which is not universally available, and the amount of expertise involved in matters like this, I am dependent on judgments about the trustworthiness of sources to have any kind of valid opinion about these matters whatsoever.......
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