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

[ajva.livejournal.com]

All week long, the “truth” is irrelevant. It is so irrelevant, that for all practical purposes it doesn’t exist (unless there’s a God to verify it).

I think it would be difficult for me to conceive of a non-aggressive statement that I could more completely and utterly disagree with than the one you have just made here.

When I use the word "truth" in this context, I mean "the fact of what actually happened, whether anyone knows it or not". It was certainly relevant to Kennedy himself at least.