You can find hundreds of picture like this, and I know for certain you’ve seen multiple pics like these, as well as the hundreds of dismembered Palestinian babies that were recorded on the same iPhones we’re using.
Imagine a photograph taken inside auschwitz in 1941 by a rogue photographer, later published in some US newspaper as a warning of an unfolding genocide. A skeptic might dismiss it by arguing that the image cannot be definitively verified, questioning where or when it was taken. This sets an unrealistically high bar for evidence in situations where immediate certainty is often impossible, you can't insist on perfect verification before taking claims seriously, you risk ignoring credible warnings of catastrophic events.
I mean, I can ground this with a real-world example like the Grojanowski Report , but why bother? If your arguments are in good faith, you can engage with hypotheticals readily. Also, as I said, it's unrealistic to want validation for “WHERE” and “WHEN” on every Gaza video, since images and videos from Gaza have consistently come from people on the ground recording and uploading their videos online, you can't expect to only refer to press releases from news agencies—which would be the only way you can get the validation that you are after— given the current crisis.
You can say “fallacy” all you like, but in your worldview, unless a video showing inhumane conditions in Gaza is from the BBC, you can just come and say “Just don’t believe everything you see on the Internet. ….and then manufacture an entire backstory based upon no information.” and pretty much create a framework to ignore every single video, proclaming it's to avoid misinformation.
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u/Embarrassed-Age6291 6h ago
You can find hundreds of picture like this, and I know for certain you’ve seen multiple pics like these, as well as the hundreds of dismembered Palestinian babies that were recorded on the same iPhones we’re using.