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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Rarely, if ever, is "It's their fault I'm angry, they didn't walk me through the information so I had no choice but to read and trust the Toronto Sun" a good excuse.
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Well, I'm including the Sun in the term "media", and as one of the worst offenders, so I would certainly agree with this. My point is that there isn't really anywhere for people to look to get good information - or if there is, it isn't exactly easy to find. Calling them lazy just seems unreasonable to me; most people don't spend a ton of time researching the political story
du jour because they have lives to live, and it's just not a priority for them. We shouldn't begrudge people prioritizing their own daily concerns.
So it's hard to blame Joe Public for being unable to adjust their intuitive reaction to so as to take into account the nuances of the situation. And I can certainly understand how, to someone who doesn't deal with this stuff ever, paying out ten million dollars to someone like Khadr seems pretty terrible at first blush. As much as it would be nice if people didn't form such strong opinions on things they don't know much about, but that's a general problem with, yknow, humanity.