14 November, 2018
The Cassandra Effect- Blog Post ll
This podcast was really interesting and it taught me a lot! One thing I learned is that you have to have evidence and prior knowledge if you want to be believed. Another example is how Andrew Natsios's warnings were taken seriously because of his relations with the presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. On the other hand, Cassandra's warnings weren't taken seriously because she didn't know anyone and she was an outsider. If you are telling something to someone and they disagree with you, tell someone more powerful so they can take action to make sure that nothing bad happens. If I had a chance to visit the Alaskan Ice Tunnel, I would figure out how bad the carbon situation is and then take action. Now, let's go back to the Cassandra part. If someone told you something bad was going to happen, and you didn't know if it was true, would you believe them?
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Answering your question - in order to believe someone I would have them back it up with evidence and if it's physical, then I would ask for them to show me. It's hard to believe people due to the amount of lying people do.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question, I might believe them, but I might not. Whether or not I believe someone who claims that something bad would happen completely depends on several things. The first being prior knowledge, what I know about the issue in the first place, and weather or not I think that the information the person is giving is accurate. It would also depend on weather or not I know the person, and how well I know them. So, honestly, I think that there are currently too many variables to accurately conclude whether or not I would listen to somebody who said that something bad was going to happen. Sruthi, my question to you is, if you knew that something bad was going to happen, and you could only tell one person, who would you tell, and why?
ReplyDeleteI agree! People are not going to belive you if you just throw a bunch of nonsence at them! You have got to point to things in the past and show them that if they don't take action it will happen again.
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