If you had the ability to prevent false information that could cause unnecessary harm from coming out, should you?
Why or why not?
Why or why not?
I do that all the time when talking with customers. I help manage a product that very few of them understand. I have to set the record straight when working with them to plan and implement solutions more times than I care to count. If I didn't do that, they would be in very bad places.If you had the ability to prevent false information that could cause unnecessary harm from coming out, should you?
Why or why not?
I would say that we all have a duty to promote what is true over what is false to the best of our ability. However, due to the fact that we have limited, imperfect knowledge, leading to differences between truth claims for different groups or individuals, we ought to approach truth with a degree of humility, recognizing that people who disagree can learn from each other, and the information that can stand up against attack from apparent false information is more robust as a truth claim.If you had the ability to prevent false information that could cause unnecessary harm from coming out, should you?
Why or why not?
If you had the ability to prevent false information that could cause unnecessary harm from coming out, should you?
Why or why not?
I say yes because I would want that done for me.If you had the ability to prevent false information that could cause unnecessary harm from coming out, should you?
Why or why not?
We have a duty as Christians to uphold the truth and share it with others. We also have a duty to refute falsehoods concerning our faith.
That said, your question specifically asks if we have the moral/ethical obligation to specifically prevent falsehoods, and to that I say no. More than no, absolutely not.
God has allowed a world where people have freedom of their own minds, and while of their own freewill they will choose evil over good every time, there's nothing in our Christian mandate that says we are to remove anyone's freedom of thought and speech.
God has ordained governments so that the innocent of society are protected from evil people like murderers and rapists, thieves and the like - but Christians nor any man is allowed to interfere with men's freedom of thinking or saying whatever they will....
If you had the ability to prevent false information that could cause unnecessary harm from coming out, should you?
Why or why not?
If you had the ability to prevent false information that could cause unnecessary harm from coming out, should you?
Why or why not?
Who gets to decide what's 'true' or 'false'?
He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Who gets to decide what's 'true' or 'false'?
Of course.
I can't really see a situation where allowing false information to harm people makes sense.
Is it better to allow the false information to be seen, but refute it with true information in a careful/loving way, hopefully before harm is caused?
If you are protecting people from harm by explaining the truth (rather than spreading the false information) then I can see that making sense.
Even then, one must take care since people often believe the first version of a story they hear, and it is harder to dislodge the idea even if it's false.
The continued influence effect is when misinformation continues to influence people even after it has been corrected. In short, it is the failure of corrections.
Even effective corrections, such as ones with lots of detail that affirm the facts rather than repeat the misinformation, can wear off after just one week. In the words of Ullrich Ecker, a cognitive scientist at the University of Western Australia, “the continued influence effect seems to defy most attempts to eliminate it.”
Most crucially, it means that when it comes to misinformation, prevention is preferable to cure.
In this cancel culture, that can get you in the Lion's Den fast.You do. The challenge is convincing others what’s true and what’s false. Using verifiable facts in a loving way tends to work well