(03-19-2014, 02:19 PM)Poet Wrote: I agree with most of what you wrote xise, although I don't think a great deal of Popper's philosophy. I wouldn't reject an idea/hypothesis just because it doesn't seem to be falsifiable. But why did you label mass surveillance as a conspiracy then? Why didn't you say that you don't know whether it is true or not?
I wasn't necessarily commenting on whether the OP's statements are in actuality falsifiable or necessarily promulgating Popper's philosophy (which is about the value of un-falsifiable stuff); just that they're not backed by current proof.
I've learned from the whole surveillance conspiracy (it was a conspiracy theory until Snowden) proven true - I now definitely think there's value to ask questions about something for which no proof currently exists whereas before I hadn't really worried about that sort of stuff at all.