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In Reply to: RE: "that famous photo of the Tiananmen Square protester confronting a tank? they ran him over" posted by rivervalley817 on May 30, 2020 at 14:24:18:
I will assume that your question "may I ask: why the fact check?" is sincere.
My answer:
Because fact checking can expose confirmation bias.
It was a simple way to expose confirmation bias, a logical fallacy. I have found that it is hard to argue with people who are loose with facts.
In my experience, when people (knowingly or unknowingly) use logical fallacies in argument, they will continue to do so, often introducing red herring fallacies [a very common logical fallacy, an attempt to (cleverly or not, purposely or not) reframe the argument, which can lead one down a seemingly bottomless rabbit hole which distracts from the original argument or topic under discussion]. In other words, it becomes a big time waster (at least for me), a seemingly never-ending spiral descending further down the rabbit hole. YMMV
"All thoughts are prey to some beast" - Bill Callahan
"I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are" - Lou Reed
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
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