• derg@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    But it is! Do you trust the food you eat? Who knows what could happen… If you take any medications at all, you must trust in some part the whole supply chain. If you drive a car, especially a new model, you trust the designers, engineers, and QA to make something that won’t kill you. Do you fly? Do you enter your banking or financial info into any computer?

    I’m not saying we should blindly trust anyone, especially not a single person, but we have to trust the experts at least some, in every field. And when those experts all basically agree… What else is there to do? Or society is built on trust.

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      6 days ago

      But it is

      For some.

      Do you trust the food you eat?

      No, it’s all full of microplastics and chemicals and Monsanto scientific horrors. I still have to eat, but I know it’s killing me slowly. You shouldn’t trust that any more than your scammy mechanic.

      If you take any medications at all, you must trust in some part the whole supply chain.

      Yeah medications never have unintended side effects that come out years later, and nobody has ever put potassium cyanide in Aspirin bottles, great example.

      If you drive a car, especially a new model, you trust the designers, engineers, and QA to make something that won’t kill you

      Yeah like a Tesla, huh? New as hell, burning people alive in crashes. Recalls happen all the time, and often don’t when they should, you’re sure there won’t be one for yours?

      Do you fly?

      Hell no.

      Do you enter your banking or financial info into any computer?

      Very limited, never stored, one device I don’t do anything sketchy on. Usually I just go to the bank, like, the building.

      Even people who aren’t lying to you may be wrong, it can happen at any level of knowledge or expertise.

      And just to remind you, I’m not talking about “vaccines,” I’m talking about “just trust me bro” w.r.t most things.