I'm not sure this is quite the same, though.
This is more proof by display, and it's a fairly fucked-up consequence of the "instant-information-world-under-a-microscope" we seem to live in now. Gaddafi isn't dead unless we see his bloody body. As if the world in general knows him well enough to identify him over another dead guy who looks a bit similar whilst watching grainy mobile footage.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 18:22, Reply)