You don't have much choice. You come to a crashing halt if you assume that EVERYONE is lying to you. About everything. Where in the hell did you pick up that idea? It is an epistemological dead end. You wall yourself off from civilization. Do you trust differential calculus? Do you trust engineers who use it to design and make the products you depend on? Like automobiles, or airplanes? Or electric appliances? If you can't trust, then you are surrounded by unlimited means of accidental death. I hope you think this one through.
You come to a crashing halt if you assume that EVERYONE is lying to you.
No I don’t, nor is that what I’m doing.
If you can't trust, then you are surrounded by unlimited means of accidental death.
If you over-trust, you end up where we are now, where a bunch of psychopaths have tricked us into contracting into all sorts of slavery traps and lies.
So, you are saying don't trust everyone, but don't distrust everyone? That is normal human behavior---but it does not lead to a blanket distrust as a policy. The normal default is to take people at their word, and attention, and keep learning about the subject matter. This whole discussion about Elon Musk vs. Apollo is marked by a lot of sheer ignorance about the ballistic and engineering requirements to get to the Moon.
You don't have much choice. You come to a crashing halt if you assume that EVERYONE is lying to you. About everything. Where in the hell did you pick up that idea? It is an epistemological dead end. You wall yourself off from civilization. Do you trust differential calculus? Do you trust engineers who use it to design and make the products you depend on? Like automobiles, or airplanes? Or electric appliances? If you can't trust, then you are surrounded by unlimited means of accidental death. I hope you think this one through.
Yes I do.
No I don’t, nor is that what I’m doing.
If you over-trust, you end up where we are now, where a bunch of psychopaths have tricked us into contracting into all sorts of slavery traps and lies.
So, you are saying don't trust everyone, but don't distrust everyone? That is normal human behavior---but it does not lead to a blanket distrust as a policy. The normal default is to take people at their word, and attention, and keep learning about the subject matter. This whole discussion about Elon Musk vs. Apollo is marked by a lot of sheer ignorance about the ballistic and engineering requirements to get to the Moon.