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The identifiable beauty of not being informed and getting away with it.

Now, you may correct me if I’m wrong but, it seems we have at least a few basic rules and understandings as the result of becoming a slightly more educated society. No, we’re not ready yet to just allow proven facts to be the measure of things but documented truth becomes more and more the base of our decisions. In a civilized world, judges rule on proven facts which, no matter how many sides there are to a story, overrule emotions or single pointed views. Of course there are exceptions to the rule in less developed democracies where capitalism has corrupted the system by making it possible to buy a seat in court, where servants of the law are elected because that can “run for office” without any education or specific knowledge and where verdicts are spoken by a jury, depending on their own believes and background. There are people who don’t care about facts and just speak out their opinion as it were the truth, but in most cases, these stories are proven wrong after a few minutes of f...