Truth, strike two

[ciphergoth]

Thanks for some interesting and surprising responses to the JFK question. At the risk of creating more heat than light, let me try another example, one that I think might be a little less comfortable to be neutral about.

It seems that many people believe that on the morning of September 11, 2001, four thousand or more Israelis who were working at the World Trade Center did not show up for work.

Are those people wrong?

(Update: amended as per ajva's caveat)

Comments

[djm4]

Whether or not I think it's OK to contradict someone has very little to do with whether or not I can prove that they're wrong (I accept, based on what you write here, that it's different for you).

I will tell someone they're wrong for non-consensually harming someone else. (I will also tell them that they're wrong if they try to stop consensual harm, as it happens.) I can't prove that it's wrong, but I feel that it is with sufficient force that I will act on that feeling.