Good Enough: When Fact-Checking Is Too Slow

Our lives and our minds move so fast. Any fact-checking service that we might use to determine the rightness, truth or falsehoods immanent in any particular informational unit trolling our emotions may require us to go to a website or research in a library. This is not Good Enough. It’s too slow. By the time we get that our Mana / energy has been hacked by a Negative Troll’s emotion-moving activity, it might be too late. We might have risen to the bait. We need a system / mental algorithm that helps us make immediate (albeit provisional) assessments but also reliable assays of the quality of the thousands of informational units (trolls) we encounter every single day of our lives.

Source: Applying the ‘Generosity’ Element of the Code of Positive Trolls

This is why Generosity outperforms fact-checking. Fact-checking requires research, time, expertise. The Generosity test requires one question: “Is it generous?” — and you can answer it in a second. By the time a fact-checker has debunked a meme, it has already altered millions of people’s Moods, Intentions, Motivations, and Attitudes.

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