Forgive me in advance but this is something I've noticed several times on GS: a) someone makes a statement, b) someone else provides some evidence that the person is or has reasons to be biased, and therefore it means c) we can dismiss everything in the original statement.
Huh??? That's not how the world works. People have biases all the time. It's a fact of life. I think it's wonderful to consider biases and to account for them but a biased person can often tell the truth. If someone biased is a witness, what you do is to get another witness or find another means to corroborate the information, you don't say "well we will not listen to anything you say because you're potentially biased." If all biased or potentially biased statements were just thrown out per se, we would have very little left in the world. topic:
Huh??? That's not how the world works. People have biases all the time. It's a fact of life. I think it's wonderful to consider biases and to account for them but a biased person can often tell the truth. If someone biased is a witness, what you do is to get another witness or find another means to corroborate the information, you don't say "well we will not listen to anything you say because you're potentially biased." If all biased or potentially biased statements were just thrown out per se, we would have very little left in the world. topic: