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[freejazz]

Great point - let's just get people rabid over what we don't know for sure, that doesn't likely have repercussions that are at least as negative at all.

[bradleyjg → freejazz]

There’s a short term benefit of not riling up people and a long term cost of destroying the public’s faith in institutions.

[freejazz → bradleyjg]

I don't really think it destroys the public's faith in institutions, I think the people that are deadset on attacking institutions are destroying the public's faith in institutions by making badfaith arguments such as what we are discussing here