Perhaps because when your daily thought pattern is limited to eat-sleep-defecate, there's no time for existential exegesis or contemplating the futility of life. Williams later apologized, saying he didn't "know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.Animals are rarely known for their suicidal tendencies. One of Williams stories about being in a flaming plane that was shot down was debunked by the soldiers who were in the plane with him, the plane that was unhit and unlit. The conservative-leaning Weekly Standard proceeded to predict the end of CBS's news division."
"The New York Times' headline report on this interview, including the phrase "Fake but Accurate," created an immediate backlash from critics of CBS's broadcast. One of the items from Rather was called "Fake but Accurate" by Rather. In the same way, Dan Rather, Brian Williams, and others were believed to be great reporters, even though they created their own sensationalized fake news to get ratings. I'm not against making money, just against those who would lie and defraud others to make more of it.ī has a page that shows four that Disney apologized about or said were untrue.
> Sounds so unlikely I'm not sure I believe you.Īre you an "associate professor" by any chance? What is so unbelievable about it? Why are you so defensive?ĭisney is a money-many endeavor that sometimes cuts corners and spreads untruths. What's so surprising about that? Do you know what an academic with a chair is? An expert.
Do you really expect a professor to back down on things he believe to be facts? And ultimately, he is the one grading the term paper and he is the ultimate authority. He believed it was a fact just like the earth was a sphere is a fact. > he literally claimed to be the ultimate authority on lemmings? If the class was "really stupid" it wouldn't have left such an indelible mark on me. It was the first time I can say I really thought about something. It was one of my favorite classes in college and hence why I decided to double major in philosophy. > And your discussion sounds with your professor sounds really stupid There is a difference between sacrifice and intentional conscious suicide where no one benefits. A mother bison trying to save her calf from predators and dying in the process isn't suicide. A female octopus giving birth and dying isn't suicide.Ī soldier going to war and dying isn't suicide. For example, a parent storming a burning building to save their child and dying in the process isn't suicide in the human sense. But the professor rejected it ( rightly so ) because it wasn't conscious and intentional suicide. I actually brought up honey bees committing suicide ( once they sting, they die ). After all, the philosophical debate was "the difference between humans and animals". We have to talk about lemmings when we are talking about conscious human-like suicide because lemmings are the only animals that purportedly had conscious intentional suicides like human being. Years from now, on my death bed, my last words will be "lemming suicide is a myth". I still remember it years later and whenever the topic of lemming suicides come up, I make it my business to correct people. Naturally, in my paper, I wrote that lemming suicides were likely myth ( with sources ) and naturally I got penalized. A bit of back and forth later, he said he was the ultimate authority on the topic and ended the discussion.
He claimed lemming suicides were established fact and that if I or anyone rejected the idea in our papers on the topic, we'd be penalized for positing a factually incorrect statement. I chimed in that lemming suicides were most likely myth and even if it was real, we shouldn't accept the idea of lemming suicides until we have definitive proof. The professor claimed that was false and brought up lemmings as evidence. Someone brought up humans commit suicide while animals don't. Our class was discussing the distinguishing characteristics between humans and animals. I had a huge argument with my philosophy professor about this.
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