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Well I don't see any "/s" on it so I take it on face value that that poster is presenting it as being true. Are you saying I should assume they believe its fiction?
I'm not sure if you know what objective truth means, but why would you expect it from an anticar lobby sub? Like, it's a political movement.. not a scientific research facility? It's not their goal to be objective, but to push for change. Not saying the things they stated are wrong, but they are first and foremost moral statements.
You and I are in full agreement on this. I have zero issue with this content in the anti car lobby sub, except that's not where the poster is putting it anymore. They're posting it in "worldnews". This is why I have a problem with it here, but not there.
I mean we're here in the comments to exchange perspectives primarily. Never saw anyone quoting research papers. There's no rule about forbidding comments to be biased or opinionated. So I'd say our access to any form of potential objective truth, as fundamental basis for discussion, is fairly limited. World news is not only about scientifically validated facts. It's rather a fast paced informational feed, where you have to balance speed and factual quality.
And we had context for the anticar lobby comment, so it's not like the person said: look, here is the irrefutable truth from an independent source. They rather said: Look here are some reasons for why XYZ is bad.
I don't have a problem with it, besides it being a lazy and hard to read solution.
So instead of thinking about anything that is written there and looking it up, it is all backed by scientific research, you just attack the messenger. Great work of anti intellectualism.
“That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” - Christopher Hitchens
Read every single one of my posts here in this thread. There are zero attacks on the messenger.