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I run across this crap all the time. Ignorant people that get an email saying a file is really a Trojan waiting to erase everything on your hard drive. So they delete the file and boom they’re hosed. That’s just an example of how people think the internet and e-mail speak only the truth.
I continually point people to snopes and they continually send me crap about how life is terribly unsafe and I better watch out for the needles stuck to my car door handle. Ya, and I’m still waiting for Bill to send me my check for e-mailing.
I suppose I shouldn’t be so amazed that that the educational system has failed to teach people how to critically analyze what they read, but I am.
It has gotten so bad that I don’t even read the e-mails, I just delete them. Then when you blast them for sending you crap they accuse you of being a radical democrat. Sigh.
Do people ever separate their emotions from critical thinking these days? Does critical thinking ever happen by the people or are their positions based on emotion triggered by key words?
I’m about ready to give up on this country. The country that is now on the list of ones that torture……
