| ▲ | sillysaurusx 3 hours ago |
| But there are real wolves when shepherding too. That’s why crying wolf has any power. To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere. In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf. |
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| ▲ | croes 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Crying wolf is normally starting the operation while there isn‘t a wolf. This is misdirection while there is a wolf Similar but different |
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| ▲ | weird-eye-issue 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That's completely pedantic and besides it's false because there literally wasn't a wolf there where he faked the photo in the first place | | |
| ▲ | croes 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Crying wolf is crying for help when there is no danger not when there is a danger just at different place. That's not pedantic, that's the meaning of the idiom. | | |
| ▲ | fc417fc802 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | If you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection. | | |
| ▲ | an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | croes an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | But this isn't a false alert. The alert is real, people just got misdirected. | | |
| ▲ | weird-eye-issue 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It was a false alert in that particular place. I doubt those residents who were alerted had felt like they were previously in immediate danger. |
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| ▲ | weird-eye-issue an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is real life there's always a danger just at a different place. |
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| ▲ | bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | what if the real criers of wolves were the sheeple we misled along the way? |
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| ▲ | 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | heliumtera 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | le reddit mentality |
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| ▲ | psychoslave 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The biggest difference now is wolf is actually sought to protect him¹ from the crowd of the super-predators in town, so they can "give him a calm environment for recovery". ¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here. |
