Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
You two seem to have missed the difference between "believe" and "believable".

There are few certainties in war, and reports about actions are never certainly true.

All these "BS-meters" mentioned here may be fine - it's just important that they're not blind on one eye.
My comment stands.

In the end there isn't a lot of space between "believe" and "believable." What criteria do you use to judge something believable? After all, you state there are few certainties in war. A lot of crazy stuff can and does happen, so by what metric do you divide believable from unbelievable? Atrocities do happen in war, so does that mean we must consider any reported atrocity "believable?"

No, that is simply confirmation bias (either positive or negative). Regardless, "believability" is only about perception - little to no actual evidence is needed, only the belief that it may be true. That's exactly what propagandists want out of you....