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

[reddragdiva]

And for a more specific case, when someone arguing for religion against sceptical atheism tried arguing in all serious that logic (as in, simple syllogisms working) was "just another belief system." At this point words stop working and the appropriate answer is to nod and smile, or perhaps split their skull open with a shovel. Because such statements make a nonsense of thought, language and communication and should not be tolerated except from human punching bags for working off surplus aggression.