Certainly well-intentioned people outnumber the rest, otherwise society would collapse. But smart people...seems not to be the case.
"Of course we can't blame filmmakers and tv showrunners for the fact that some people erroneously believe what they put out there is fact. (Can we? Is there a line somewhere?)"
Blame is a complicated responsible. Certainly there are all sorts of causes, but I can't point to one proximate cause...or one person or group that deserves "blame." There's certainly a lot of blame to go around, but mostly I think it is a natural effect of the social systems we have in place.
Re: Movie tickets
"Of course we can't blame filmmakers and tv showrunners for the fact that some people erroneously believe what they put out there is fact. (Can we? Is there a line somewhere?)"
Blame is a complicated responsible. Certainly there are all sorts of causes, but I can't point to one proximate cause...or one person or group that deserves "blame." There's certainly a lot of blame to go around, but mostly I think it is a natural effect of the social systems we have in place.
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