I think my opinion on that is known (lol), so I'll instead point out something tangential that's been on my mind, which is the dual skills of discernment & judgement.
When you're really good at what you do in a communications field, you can sell anything. That's true in advertising, and that's true in geopolitics. You can build a logical (not necessarily 'true') narrative to support practically any desired conclusion, simply by isolating the elements that support you and excluding whatever doesn't.
Some variation of that happens whenever a prosecutor sends an innocent man to jail. We've also seen it in places like the Soviet Union: "You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime," said Beria (their secret police chief).
Not a coincidence that Libra (English: "Pounds/Weights") is the ancient symbol of Justice
I think that 'doing justice' to a person or a situation is a very difficult, borderline superhuman task, since it requires you to nullify inclinations and 'weigh' two sides — one of which you might even hate! Instead of that, we are very practiced at "tipping the scales" (just a metaphor?) where we think they should go. But whenever we do that, we always become a little more dishonest ourselves, and we amplify the "scale" of injustice in the world overall.
Not an easy thing. But I think this is something we should think about carefully, given that the wars of narrative are likely only to escalate from here.
That's my .02!
Yup. King Solomon has been given a gift of perfect judgement, which actually indicates it's a superhuman skill.
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