Oldbear83 said:
"We should live in a fact based world"
Impossible in a world where the Media is driven by the Internet, and the Internet runs on 'likes' and what's 'trending'.
There are too many people who believe this bull*****
We can find objective truths.
We can agree that the earth is round, there have been humans on the moon, 9/11 was not an inside job and kids were shot at Sandy Hook. But we somehow have to ask the internet who won the last presidential election. And find out some are persuaded that the generally accepted answer is wrong.
It is easy to blame the media, it's what our leader did, but to do so is to shirk the responsibility we each have to sort out the bull***** And it is not all bull*****
We just need to use our
bull**** detectors:
"According to the American Philosophical Association, critical thinking is "
the process of purposeful, self-regulatory judgment." When we do critical thinking, we are reasoning, evaluating, and making decisions based on evidenceand doing so in a way that, according to the APA, "always seeks the truth with objectivity, integrity, and fair-mindedness.""
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat