Thursday 28 September 2017

Cause and Effect or Effect and Cause?

It depends on what you are predisposed to prove.

As a random example did the acute Syrian refugee crisis in 2015 cause Angela Merkel to open the doors (what I think) or did Angela Merkel opening the doors cause the crisis? There will be a true answer to this in an objective sense but most political commentary these days “makes” the truth according to a pre-existing agenda which simply describes the sequence of cause and effect in a certain way in order to achieve confIrmation. Perhaps that’s a version of “Fake News.” It’s all in the description and, if you can smuggle your loaded description of events past other people at the outset, you win the argument. This also works in the framing of scientific experiments in some areas.

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