Hemingways_Shotgun

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  • The notion that “facts matter”.

    I’ve spent my entire life believing that facts don’t care about feelings. That scientific truth doesn’t require your belief in it in order to be true. That at the end of the day, reasoning will beat emotion…

    By far the most dis-heartening thing about the last few years (to me) has been accepting the idea they “facts” are “whatever is shouted the loudest”.

    It, more than anything else, makes me feel helpless. If the enemy isn’t even playing with the same fact-sheet… How do you even begin to fight that?






  • I get what you’re trying to say. But the truth is, a red light doesn’t stop anyone from doing anything. It just tells them that there will be consequences if they choose to do so and get caught.

    For the sake of the metaphor that you were going for, we can say that some people know that they’ll face no consequences if they’re caught. So they feel entitled to not bother stopping. While some people know that, based on previous history, that they’ll be stopped even if they just managed to squeak through while the light was still yellow.