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Urchin

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23. If you think they honestly believe what they post

Reply to w4rma (Reply #12)

Sat May 21, 2016, 03:14 PM

May 2016

when they don't believe it themselves, is what you believe their fault, especially when you know people are free on the net to profess to believe things they really do not?

We should all realize that what we read on the net is untrustworthy.

And that is good.

Because it places limits the net's ability to replace those people and businesses whose jobs have been to supply us with reliable information.

As for what you see on the net--consider it in the same light as when absorbing a book or film that is fiction. You don't believe what's portrayed actually happen, but the work of fiction serves as a playground for different ideas.

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