A brahmin walked home with a goat for sacrifice. Three rogues, positioned along the road, each said separately: "Why do you carry a dog?" By the third time he heard it, the brahmin put the goat down, certain his own eyes had deceived him. The rogues ate well that night.
A lie repeated confidently by multiple sources becomes indistinguishable from observation. The brahmin's failure was trusting the consensus of strangers over his own direct experience. Repetition is not evidence.
Where is repeated social consensus causing you to doubt something you have directly experienced to be true?
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