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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
"The company said production will slow down in the coming months ," So folks will still be flying the questionable planes out there now.
"We are a civil society, and order must prevail." Meaning what we say goes...
"Now, by displaying how it handles its own civil society at home, the West is ruining yet another useful illusion." Well said.
Well, that was interesting. Planned and accomplished.
"the survival of the continent" is at stake." A bit dramatic, to say the least.
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The crime is vandalism. That is it.
Motivation is only considerable when asking about why a particular act was commited. The act itself is the punishable offense, not the criminal's likes or dislikes.
By the same logic a crime commited out of felling of "love" would necessitate a lighter sentence. So when I kill my local gas station attendant because I love him and cannot stand to see him ignorantly participating in the rape and destruction of the world, am I to be let off with probation? Maybe a stern talking to. After all, I loved the guy.
If I blow up the local candy maker's production facility because I love children and weak willed adults. Ravaged by emotion and concern for all the people with diabetes.Motivated by intense love and EMPATHY I could see no recourse. Of course this was a violent and destructive act,but hey, it was a LOVE CRIME.
They have been doing this for years with the war on drugs. Adding charges of "intent" to distribute. Ridiculous. Either it was distributed and the crime stopped at the point of occurance or it wasn't. How can a cop, judge, prosecutor or jury member have any standing to rule on "intent"?
Thought crime for the artificially intelligent.