Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now

Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by toofy on Sunday February 23, 2020 @11:13AM (#22397570)

This could easily be an issue of colloquial interpretation barriers, but there is a significant difference between healthy skepticism and a mistrust driven by assuming the other party is always acting in bad faith.

Like I said, this could be a simple misunderstanding of concepts, but there is a percentage of the population who have drifted from a healthy skepticism into paranoidTown where they assume good faith people/humanity are out to get them. This mistrust is causing many of them to fail to apply basic logic in their decision making.

Hopefully your post was advocating for what I would call a healthy skepticism.

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Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by Aperocky on Sunday February 23, 2020 @11:25AM (#22397662)

> always acting in bad faith.

Not just that, they're always acting in bad faith and most of time even against their own interest! To cause harm to _$you_ specifically because $you're so important.

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Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by isoskeles on Sunday February 23, 2020 @11:32AM (#22397713)

> there is a percentage of the population who have drifted from a healthy skepticism into paranoidTown where they assume good faith people/humanity are out to get them

And how big is that percentage? I’m starting to believe, sincerely, that views like the one you expressed are more paranoid and driven by fear-mongering than the views described in your comment. I call these people flat eartherers, e.g. those who believe there are many flat earthers all over the place who are a problem.

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