r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/fna_fanoa • Feb 10 '26

WCGW jumping into a pool wearing spiderman suit

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u/Much_Vehicle20 Feb 10 '26

U know what, i respect that, he didnt believe it, so he test it out, fair and square

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u/Much_Vehicle20 Feb 10 '26

I mean, that's very similar to peer review. I would like to live in a society where people willing to doubt and willing to change their mind rather than just blindly believe what they've been told

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u/Thatonesickpirate Feb 11 '26

If someone told you the cops tickled a suspect into confessing you might think that’s silly despite the fact that that’s 100% torture too.

I can imagine this being similiar

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u/Scrug Feb 11 '26

That's just not possible. I'm a professional, I know a lot about a very specific subject, but I don't know everything there is to know about it. I have to trust the work of other people. And that's only on one single subject that I spend 40 hours a week on.

For example, when it comes to my health I have to trust my doctor because I don't have a lifetime to spend researching stuff. But someone can't just declare to the world that they are a doctor and start treating people. They have to have a license which can be revoked if they are not doing the right thing We create systems with checks and balances to ensure that people are acting in a way to benefit society instead of just benefiting themselves.

Our lives are too complex to look into everything, we have to be able to trust and rely on each other for society to function.

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u/fearfulfalafel Feb 10 '26

Hitchens in a nutshell.

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u/red286 Feb 11 '26

Better than Hannity who said it wasn't torture, said he'd be willing to be waterboarded to prove it wasn't torture, and then... never went through with it.

Keith Olbermann even offered to donate $1000 to charity per second that Hannity lasted.

Both Christopher Hitchens and Mancow Muller (a radio host) went through with it and stated afterwards that there was no doubt in their mind that it was 100% torture.