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Re: In today's news...
There's a difference between bias and outright stating your agenda
Like I said though, I don't doubt the contents, but I bet it's just a case of someone trying to inflame people's kneejerk reactions than any reflection of what they're actually going to be used for. There's a big difference between a few authors of measure ranting about kids in the street and actual action though. It's like saying just because something *might* happen that it's going to happen. That is a MAJOR logical fallacy that taints rational debate. It's the same argument that was used against tons of things in the past with every moral guardian panic ever. "Video games will turn our kids into murderers!" Yeah, it's an extreme example, but a lot of these news articles have a really similar theme, especially when taken so far out of context.
And really, what kind of idiot would outright put that kind of information on a bill as a serious use. If you're going to be doing shady business, you cover it up, not make the info publicly available. If there was going to be some kind of extra-judicial crackdown, or any kind of serious threat at all, even in the slightest, we would NOT have any news stories about it before hand. The people who do such things, let alone succeed at them, are far more competent to be outed by any news source ahead of said incidents. I'm not even aware of ANY such incidents where news has come out ahead of time. It's pretty much always investigation of an event that went horribly wrong, then finding secret classified documents.
Seriously XSI, I know you mean well, but 90% of that kind of news you post is even less credible that the 2012 Mayan end of the world crap that was going around. It's like claiming the pyramids were build by aliens. Sure, it's an answer, but there's an infinite amount of better answers.
Eh, I have more thoughts on the matter, but it's hard to organize, and I really don't want to be too harsh. I just think taking some of these seriously is pretty ridiculous.
There's a difference between bias and outright stating your agenda
Like I said though, I don't doubt the contents, but I bet it's just a case of someone trying to inflame people's kneejerk reactions than any reflection of what they're actually going to be used for. There's a big difference between a few authors of measure ranting about kids in the street and actual action though. It's like saying just because something *might* happen that it's going to happen. That is a MAJOR logical fallacy that taints rational debate. It's the same argument that was used against tons of things in the past with every moral guardian panic ever. "Video games will turn our kids into murderers!" Yeah, it's an extreme example, but a lot of these news articles have a really similar theme, especially when taken so far out of context.
And really, what kind of idiot would outright put that kind of information on a bill as a serious use. If you're going to be doing shady business, you cover it up, not make the info publicly available. If there was going to be some kind of extra-judicial crackdown, or any kind of serious threat at all, even in the slightest, we would NOT have any news stories about it before hand. The people who do such things, let alone succeed at them, are far more competent to be outed by any news source ahead of said incidents. I'm not even aware of ANY such incidents where news has come out ahead of time. It's pretty much always investigation of an event that went horribly wrong, then finding secret classified documents.
Seriously XSI, I know you mean well, but 90% of that kind of news you post is even less credible that the 2012 Mayan end of the world crap that was going around. It's like claiming the pyramids were build by aliens. Sure, it's an answer, but there's an infinite amount of better answers.
Eh, I have more thoughts on the matter, but it's hard to organize, and I really don't want to be too harsh. I just think taking some of these seriously is pretty ridiculous.