[jessaustin]

We seem to have drifted from the seemingly impossible task of determining truth to the definitely impossible task of determining what someone believed at the moment of speech. Authoritarianism is terrible for humans. Pray you never have to answer in court for this thread.

[belltaco]

>We seem to have drifted from the seemingly impossible task of determining truth

So I guess it's time for the courts to pack up and shut down and go home.

>to the definitely impossible task of determining what someone believed at the moment of speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)

Yes, the courts should definitely turn off the lights right away.

>Pray you never have to answer in court for this thread.

Even if I was somehow successfully prosecuted it'd only be a civil fine. I am not worried.

Maybe these people are worried?

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/

[jessaustin]

The courts have a hard enough time with important truths like whether somebody killed somebody else. They're already busy; why should we load them up with trivial questions like whether COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab or not, and doubly trivial questions like who believed in particular answers to those already-trivial questions and when?