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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
You could well be right, but if we do end up in a situation where there is civil unrest or riots, I doubt that the police and military will sit back and do nothing.
I have seen the way that some of the police behave in demonstrations in my younger days too, I can't speak for the military.
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True. People often post links to confirm what they are saying, but whose to say they are true? Similarly, the absence of a link doesn't mean that the information isn't true!
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Well, I can, and it's very unlikely...
But the absence of a link means there is no way of confirming/denying any validity, and expecting people to take a statement on "faith" - it's only polite to support a premise/statement with some information, otherwise we will end up with opinion being equated with fact. People are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts - it's either factual or not. That's the challenge with so-called "balance" on some news programme - if someone with decades of experience, practical and theoretical, in a field of knowledge goes on, they feel the need to contrast with someone not equally qualified, but just have an opposing opinion.
If one of the viewpoints on a heart-related health issue are from a consultant cardiologist, it is not ‘balance’ for another to be from a Mayan priest who sacrifices people and rips their heart out of their still living body. Whilst both sides can say they have experience of heart-related matters, only one is really knowledgeable in how to keep the patient alive...