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by afiori 2215 days ago
A judgement-free aside:

The information age intrinsically makes it harder for this kind of statements.

On almost all topics we are bounded to be ignorant of some important facets, and the sheer size of the internet means that many other will be ignorant/knowledgeable on different facet of any topic.

In a sense this means that most endorsements of public topics by an organization/individual will incur in a certain level of "what about these negative sides of that thing"; this happens especially if there was not a previous synchronizing pressure for that topic.

Once upon a time it was a lot easier for social clusters to be similarly ignorant/knowledgeable on any given topic.

As often happens with progress we lose something and we gain something.