Re:Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule
by hamstergene on Saturday April 16, 2016 @07:56AM
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All news sites carry a bias - all of them.
A little off-topic, is there a name for this kind of rhetoric? I've seen it used a lot, for example:
- When pointed to government corruption they would reply "all the other governments have corruption too", implying there's no difference.
- When asked about low level of life, they would reply something like "15% of your own people are living below the poverty line", implying nothing out of normal is going on.
It's like, one guy has his boot covered in shit and the second is covered in it fully, the first says "you have problem of being in shit" and the second responds "you have that problem too (pointing to his boot) so it's ok".
This argument basically implies something like "we must not discriminate on the grounds of this problem because it is normal for everyone to have it", avoiding the possibly disadvantageous discussion of what is level of the problem and whether this level is normal.
- When pointed to government corruption they would reply "all the other governments have corruption too", implying there's no difference.
- When asked about low level of life, they would reply something like "15% of your own people are living below the poverty line", implying nothing out of normal is going on.
It's like, one guy has his boot covered in shit and the second is covered in it fully, the first says "you have problem of being in shit" and the second responds "you have that problem too (pointing to his boot) so it's ok".
This argument basically implies something like "we must not discriminate on the grounds of this problem because it is normal for everyone to have it", avoiding the possibly disadvantageous discussion of what is level of the problem and whether this level is normal.