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What do you think the moral of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is? Is it a lesson for the villagers, or a lesson for a (potential) liar?

>>PaulDa+(OP)
Why is Twitter suspending the account for the Fauci email leaker(s)? Is that the path to truth?

Whom is that a lesson for?

>>mc32+o
No. Powerful people aren't necessarily interested in the truth, and they have a lot of Leverage out there. That's my personal take.

>>PaulDa+(OP)
It's a story. Mature people can act smartly and morally even when they are annoyed

If I had to pick a "moral" of that fable, it's to never let your guard down, no matter what.

>>briefc+u1
I think you've missed the moral. It's not about being annoyed. It's about making a choice on whether to dismiss someone's claims because of their past lies.

Sure, you can make the case for always ignoring past lies, and always evaluating every claim based on current evidence. The reason the story exists is to try to illustrate how most humans actually behave, despite there being a preferable response.

In addition, the evidence for the lab leak theory wasn't strong back when Trump became the mouthpiece for it. There wasn't much of a reason, even if you evaluated the current evidence for what could be another one of his thousands of documented lies, to take it particularly seriously.

That situation might be changing now, and we are seeing that in the media and culture right now, as we respond to new evidence, or more specifically, lack of other expected evidence.

>>PaulDa+(OP)
As I know the story, claims about wolf were made by just the boy, not by scores of people and subsequently dismissed because the boy was also one who claimed it. I'm starting to question if you argue in good faith.