JerryBoBerry said:
Kind of figured the first report of this case was sensational bullshit. Just didn't sound right. So I've been waiting for someone to either release transcripts of the case or at least give better details of the case. I'm thinking this sounds more realistic.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2...-can-shoot-an-escort-who-refuses-to-have-sex/
I have discovered another danger that does not relate directly to the case but rather to how it has developed as a discussion here. I too thought, while reading the short blurb linked in the OP, there has to be something more. I thought of trying to see what I could find, but I thought, that's a pain in the ass, and if there is more someone else, probably Jerrybb, will bring it to light. Since reacting to the thread was much more fun than trying to hunt for more, that is what I did.
Catching up today I got to Jerry's post, and I was struct with the idea that the reason I did not search for the real facts, or what I thought must be more facts, something that made this make a little better sense, was because I was relying on someone else to do that for me, and since Jerry has been so consistent as a forum member who finds the missing pieces,
I knew he would find it even if no one else did.
That is danger #1: We all understand that with the internet wide open, where anyone who has access to consuming it, also can contribute to it, that there is a lot of bullshit and that some of that BS can be presented in such a way that it gets passed along as credible info. (Or as here, that there were no lies, but rather omissions of relevant facts, and facts interject that may not be relevant at all, in what seems to be an effort to lead.) We all also know that because almost every fact of any current event there is, has been added, or will be added to the internet, we know the truth is out there. The danger is, that because we know the info, the truthful info, the whole story, all the fact, are out there, and because it is a pain in the ass to search for stuff (partly because there is so much BS to search through), and we take for granted someone like Jerry will find the real story if need be, -
That we stop looking for the truth ourselves.
The second concern I have that this thread has provided an example or two, and is something that has been happening long before electronic media, but I fear is getting more pervasive : Is this tendency to want to entertain ourselves, and when the facts turn out to be less entertaining than the other we ignore the facts and
continue to behave as if the more entertaining BS is what's Real.
Before we had the internet there were lots of fictional stories that contained lots of facts and omissions of facts, to lend the appearance of real shit, but they were separate and had stages like the Star, Enquirer, and other such trash media. People could read them for entertainment, and some no doubt think they are news that no one else will print, because of area 51, or something, but those stories were not mixed in with all the other stuff. Now a lot of the time the first credible, or what appears to be credible thing we read, is not factual, or incomplete, and I think looking at the real facts that are not so exciting after we have invested our emotions into something else, can be a real let down. IDK just makes sense to me.
