Comment by wat10000
15 days ago
If your eyes are closed, then things look the same whether you're in the middle of a calm meadow or on a highway about to be run over by a truck.
If you prefer not to look, maybe because you're convinced there's no truck, or you don't think it would help avoid the truck if there is one, fair enough. But the fact that your personal experience is unchanged is meaningless.
It is well known that news and social media is biased towards outrage. Most issues people get upset about are really not that big in reality and quickly forgotten once the public consciousness moves on to the next thing. If there is someone yelling "look out for the truck" all the time no matter what the rational choice is to ignore them.
Ignoring them means not letting them influence your opinion either way. You should still allow yourself to reach the same opinion they're espousing by your own means, otherwise you're letting them control your opinions just as much as somebody who slavishly agrees with them.
Ignore the boy crying wolf, but you should still watch for wolves. If you don't want to, fine, but "I don't look for wolves and my sheep are fine" is not a very good argument.