[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?