"Fear stalks Berkeley's Rainbow Village"
In this post I will try to walk a thin line between skepticism and cynicism with regard to the veracity of Vivian Cercy’s testimony . T o some, cynicism may appear to be s kepticism , so I will give a definition of skepticism, and then I’ll give a definition of cynicism to distinguish the two clearly. Skepticism is merely maintaining an attitude of doubt with regard to the truth of a claim or set of claims. Cynicism, on the other hand, is an inclination to believe that people are purely motivated by self-interest. So there are many reasons to be skeptical regarding the veracity of Vivian Cercy’s testimony, and these go beyond her claim to have seen Mary and Greg with a tall, skinny, blond man around 0130. These are reasons that prosecuting attorney Jim Anderson (a cynic, in my opinion) could have given a jury to get them to doubt the truth of her entire testimony. They explain why Vivian Cercy may have told Vincent Johnson that, “she actually had not seen anything on the
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