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Familiar with Brandolini's Law?

According to Wikipedia Brandolini's Law, also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principal is an internet adage which emphasizes the difficulty of debunking bullshit.

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that to produce it .

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EuphoricTurtle · 41-45, M

That's why most of the time it's just better to apply Hitchen's Razor

[quote]What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.[/quote]

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F

@EuphoricTurtle Occam's Razor?

EuphoricTurtle · 41-45, M

@FlowersNButterflies that's a different philosophical razor

[quote]Razors include:

Occam's razor: Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions.

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Hitchens's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. [/quote]

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F

@EuphoricTurtle Thank you. I needed Hanlon's Razor here in Arkansas, one of the lowest IQ States in the union. Hitchen's sounds familiar. I enjoy athiests.

EuphoricTurtle · 41-45, M

@FlowersNButterflies that's pretty harsh, but hey you live there so I'm sure you can judge those around you better than me. The Hitchen's razor was indeed from Christopher Hitchens. His Hitch-slaps are legendary, very entertaining youtube videos.

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F

@EuphoricTurtle Okay, here it is ranked as 9th dumbest. Third highest for weapons ownership.

https://bestlifeonline.com/dumbest-states-in-the-us/

EuphoricTurtle · 41-45, M

@FlowersNButterflies that sounds like a scary combination 😳

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F

I was not very surprised about the number of people from Arkansas who were part of the 1-6 insurrection. @EuphoricTurtle

EuphoricTurtle · 41-45, M

@FlowersNButterflies Yeah, with that combination I can't say I'm surprised either