Gus wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2017 2:03 pm
If I make a claim that minister x said abc, and if somebody asks to source it - the response cannot be "well don't you trust the minister" or "you go disprove it".
Yes, I will keep asking for sources. Getting annoyed at such basic stuff only reflects on the person making unsourced claims.
Now this is getting funny...
When a minister says something, he IS the source, and he is quoting data produced by his ministry! Any other so called 'source' will again have to quote the minister as the 'source'. And this 'source' is the secondary 'source', original 'source' being the minister and the data from his ministry. Once the minister 'source' is useless (because he always lies!), what is the use of secondary source? Does the foreign agencies quoting various data use data released by various ministries, or they use their own researched data, or both?
If the foreign agencies quote a minister or use data provided by a particular ministry, will that data become more credible (afterall foreigners are okay with it)? If yes, why not believe it from the horse's mouth?
Is there something called credibility? What makes some believe that the present of ministers are liers ( a la zero sum Sibal). Have they told anything in the past which is an outright lie?
If not, is it because of political leanings that some people believe that what ever these bunch of ministers say must be lies?
If yes, why drag others into it?
I can't remember anything that Modi Govt has said, which is an outright lie. So I believe them. I am not asking others to follow suit. They can continue living in their la la land, without any 'reflections' on others' character.