RE: Share Price31 Jul 2024 15:11
news courtesy- will you refrain from calling people names ('trolls") and other forms of lack of courtesy or respect?
i am not sure why you believe you are the arbitrator of social norms but there was an interesting essay on the word:
"harry frankfurt's concept
in his essay on bull**** (originally written in 1986, and published as a monograph in 2005), philosopher harry frankfurt of princeton university characterizes bull**** as a form of falsehood distinct from lying. the liar, frankfurt holds, knows and cares about the truth, but deliberately sets out to mislead instead of telling the truth. the "bull****ter", on the other hand, does not care about the truth and is only seeking "to manipulate the opinions and the attitudes of those to whom they speak":[12][13]
it is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. producing bull**** requires no such conviction. a person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. when an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. for the bull****ter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. his eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. he does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. he just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose."
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