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Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by miguelmota on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:27PM (#19905124)
> The jury is in no position to determine which claim is more correct.

Society determines what is correct or wrong. A jury is a random selection of society. Anyone who wants provide a good to a society must follow principles set by the society.

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Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by ekianjo on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:03PM (#19905380)
And maybe Society gets things wrong right? We dont torture people to get confessions anymore (in most western countries at least) so surely our standards evolve over time. We are not at the Apex of everything yet.
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Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by miguelmota on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:34PM (#19906313)
Yes society sometimes gets things 'wrong' in retrospective
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Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by UnFleshedOne on Thursday May 16, 2019 @12:39PM (#19930517)
Not 'wrong', just wrong. There is such a thing as an objective truth (for a given question), and you can be relatively closer to or farther from it than the next guy (or next 8 billion guys).
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Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by dhkxh on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:27AM (#19907731)
No - the facts don't change just because a large enough number of people disagree.
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Re:California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roun... by miguelmota on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:51AM (#19910074)
Facts in a society are what that society deems or 'proven to be as truth'. Most facts are indeed a fact because a large amount of people (in the respective field) agree that it is a 'fact' ('irrefutable truth' as seen by that society or group).
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