Hoax story
March 2, 2011
Yesterday, someone shared a story that looked like a hoax, warning people against some frivolous criminal schemes involving fake children on the side of the road and eggs in the windshield. I checked and those two examples are hoaxes: http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/carseat.asp and http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/eggthrow.asp.
I then post a comment saying that they are hoaxes and that one should check the validity of such claims before sharing or re-posting.
Then I got an answer from the “sharer” saying that I was a fool and that he didn’t care much about the fact itself, but just thinking that such things exist is scary enough, and that if I didn’t share his opinion, I would just have to avoid commenting.
Sigh. I don’t like this kind of situation. At first I thought I could give some explanations to this guy, but I resisted. I re-read his response, and I thought that he has too much to learn, I can’t help him 
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What I think about that? Well…
- His rationale about the fact that I shouldn’t comment because I don’t share his opinion is quite far from demonstrating any kind of intelligence
- If he only had read the URLs I provided, he would have found that these ideas do not come from criminals’ minds, but only in the mind of some kind of people that like making up stories to scare people
- A criminal is a criminal, and if a criminal targets a victim, it won’t help if the victims knows about all the hoaxes available on the internet
What did I do? I went into my friends list and deleted this person from the list. That kind of person doesn’t deserve one more minute of my time.
