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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by nitrogen on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:15PM (#12738236)
So release more information that allows the people to make rational choices. The people are irrational because they are treated as pawns and manipulated with controlled information. If two countries are negotiating in ways that would upset their own citizens, then those countries' leaders should only blame themselves for the way they have conditioned their citizens to behave.
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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by dogma1138 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:22PM (#12738292)
More often than not there isn't more information to release, because that information isn't there yet.

People are irrational because they are irrational.

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by nitrogen on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:38PM (#12738441)
People are irrational because they are irrational.

So let's fix that first instead of continuing to manipulate the flow of information; the rest will follow.

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by jospoortvliet on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:50AM (#12741885)
Right. Replace people with computers perhaps?

Because our few pounds of gray matter will never be rational. Us techies tend to think we are, which is exactly why we're even more prone to act irrational in some situations!

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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by nitrogen on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:59AM (#12742443)
Defeatism ensures defeat. Instead of thinking of reasons not to try, why not try to come up with solutions?
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