I really like this: "(if you don’t have time to trace something back to its source, then you don’t have the right to share it to other people & use up their time)" from the last paragraph.
It’s quite impossible to prove anything from first principle, unless you were an eye witness yourself. A society needs a certain amount of trust, or what is often disparaged as “proof from authority”.
People rail against trusting institutions like, say, the New York Times. But they will far more readily lone their car to their spouse than a stranger, even though the latter action relies on essentially the same mechanisms: knowing the person/institution’s track record, and knowing they have an ongoing interest in preserving the trust you put in them that outweighs any incentives to defraud you.
That’s because the first is easy to state —one may even call it the alt-right’s version of “virtue signaling”— while actually following through in daily life would show how unworkable the suggestion is.
Also: have you traced every single fact that went into your agreement with the sentence you shared back to its source, and verified their accuracy?
People rail against trusting institutions like, say, the New York Times. But they will far more readily lone their car to their spouse than a stranger, even though the latter action relies on essentially the same mechanisms: knowing the person/institution’s track record, and knowing they have an ongoing interest in preserving the trust you put in them that outweighs any incentives to defraud you.
That’s because the first is easy to state —one may even call it the alt-right’s version of “virtue signaling”— while actually following through in daily life would show how unworkable the suggestion is.
Also: have you traced every single fact that went into your agreement with the sentence you shared back to its source, and verified their accuracy?