Re:Ukraine crisis: Parliament abolishes anti-protest law
by PavlovsCat on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @10:28AM
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Surely you don't mean to say Russians couldn't possibly be biased as well?
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Re:Ukraine crisis: Parliament abolishes anti-protest law
by Mikeb85 on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @10:33AM
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Everyone has their biases. It's not as if Russians in the US are particularly pro-Putin.
Re:Ukraine crisis: Parliament abolishes anti-protest law
by PavlovsCat on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @10:40AM
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> Everyone has their biases.
True. But that also means to say certain opinions are flawed because of bias is kind of pointless, isn't it?
what some protester writes on a blog (because that wouldn't be biased at all...)
At least it's first-hand bias. Those people put their lives on the line, literally, so while I agree one shouldn't just take a handful opinions and believe them, I think you can't just easily dismiss them for being protesters, either. It takes a lot of material to come even to a tentative conclusion, but it's possible. Then you'll still be biased but I guess that's the price of being human.