kriadydragon | Soap box Time!

I find it both sad and annoying how easily people will take sides and believe a thing without first fully researching that thing. They'll read some website that claims to have all the facts about group A, painting group as as teh evil and group B as the poor picked on woobie, and automatically believe that's how it is. They don't think, "Wait, is that really how it is? Let me read the other side of the story, first." And, yes, sometimes it is a matter of group A being evil, but sometimes it isn't. Which is why I never trust a site or a documentary that claims to know everything about a group but posts only the negative about that group (or, in some cases, things they made up). You're not presenting facts if you're only presenting one side of the story. It's not doing a service, it's doing a disservice. I'd even go so far to say it's borderline manipulation (in some cases, it's straight-up manipulation), because it's not really allowing people to make up their own minds since they don't have all the facts (or any facts at all).