re: "A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out" (The New York Times, August 12, 2020)
Burning Bibles? What's wrong with getting warm? Will it hurt the gods?
Burning an American flag? Isn't that the foundational expression of its democracy based on freedom that American soldiers died to protect?
Even if the stories were not utterly fake, sensible people, people who valued the ideals that found America as a nation of free individuals, would not get all riled up. But rational, moral people would also wonder whether something too incredible really was quite credible: if it's too stupid to be true, maybe it isn't true.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to the New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/russia-disinformation-election-meddling.html#commentsContainer&permid=108588406:108588406
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