(06-08-2018, 03:38 AM)TheNomad Wrote: Who decides? Are they liars when "factcheckers" research their lies? Or are they liars when each one of us decides they are lying based on our own "knowledge" and whether we agree with their lies?
IT'S A FAIR QUESTION.
It's not really a sensible question.
Consider these questions and answers:
Q. Why does wood or coal burn with a yellow or orange flame while natural gas (usually) burns with blue flame. Why those colors and not others?
A: Gases burn with a blue flame, while hot soot particles glow with a yellow-orange color because they are solids.
Q. When plants take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, where does the oxygen come from?
A: From the oxygen molecules in the carbon dioxide.
Can you assess the truth content of the answers to these questions out of what your personal knowledge about the physics of flame colors or the biochemistry of photosynthesis?
If not, how would you go about trying to answer these questions? Would you (1) simply pronounce the truth of the matter ex cathedra-style or (2) do some google searches lookin for answers?
If you chose 1, who died and made you God? And if 2, what you are doing is "fact checking".
So the answer to your question above is when "factcheckers research their lies" and not "whether we agree with their lies".
Unless you believe you really are Almighty God.
