(2021-10-23, 11:13 PM)malf Wrote: There is an appetite for these reports and stories, and that demand creates a market.
Thus, there will always be a lot of these reports driven by all sorts of desires and motives.
It is a logical fallacy to say due to the number of these stories, at least one must be true.
An analogy might be with the number of ‘patriots’ that came forward with stories of fraud following the 2020 election. Surely some of these stories are true?
Sexual harassment in the workplace is closer to the varied reports of the paranormal than disputation of a single event.
Is every woman just hysterical or misreading cues or having post-coitus regret?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
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