Comment on Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X
nostradiel@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe whole premise of stopping lies is flawed cause you never can stop them. The society would have to impose complete censorship of data which is firstly against all human rights and secondary everyone would have to state the unilateral truth which is utopian in it’s nature. As long as there are different opinions and facts there are many shades of truth…
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
There aren’t different facts, though. Thinking like this is part of the problem.
nostradiel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I disagree. Thinking like you is the problem. There is not and never can be one simple truth. If you see only one truth you are neglecting opinions, thoughts and facts of thousands more people.
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Which facts are different for different people? Do you have an example?
nostradiel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fact one:
Izrael is autonomous state formed by western countries after second world war to create a home country for all Jews around the world. Theirs truth is that they can keep and defend their boarders, believes and traditions as they need even if it means suppression of a minority for avoiding the ww2 crimes happening again.
Fact two :
Palestine is a region where people lived for thousands of years in peace with christians and jews and one day without asking, they are told that they are part of a newly formed state with different customs and believes. Theirs truth is that they want to sustain their tradition, autonomy and believes.
Two facts, two truths, both reasonable, both having meaning to people and they contradict each other. Point of view matters. I don’t take part in this, I just used it as an example cause it’s in news a lot now.
PS: I despise all atrocities which Hamas does in Izrael. Hamas does not talk for most of the Palestine people, but unfortunately it’s a creation of lack of initiative of west and Izrael to solve this issue once and for all. It could have been avoided.