rsvman2
Do you really think injecting reason, logic and sanity has any chance of succeeding here? lol Conspiracy theorists rely on belief and speculation rather than evidence. Hidden truths and secret plots may be interesting, but are rarely true.
Conspiracy theorists take small gaps in information or ambiguity and automatically jump to a hidden explanation. We saw the same thing with vaccinations relying on pseudoscience. Lacking any scientific method.
Conspiracy theorists reinterpret evidence against their theory as evidence for it. Which makes it a matter of faith rather than something that can be proven or disproven.
We live in a post truth world. Where everyone can have their own set of facts. Makes it ripe for conspiracy theorists. The question that needs to be asked to a conspiracy theorist is this.
Do you have reason to think this is true? Or would you simply like it to be true? Reasons support claims that have to do with plausibility regarding logic and consistency with established facts and knowledge when seeking the truth.
Motives are something related to what we want rather than what is the case. Many reasons why people are motivated to accept faulty claims.
People can choose what to acknowledge and what to ignore. They can construct their own picture of the world as they like it to be. Truth and facts play no part in this process.
This is called active or willful ignorance / self deception. It's what we see in the world these days especially with social media. The spreading of lies and disinformation. Basically communicating and spreading unreliable information.
The construction of your own beliefs based on bullshit isn't a new phenomenon. It just spreads a lot faster now. Conspiracy theories that are incompatible with science and common sense should be received with scepticism.
And not indulged with self deception and willful ignorance. Again, beliefs should be based on plausibility of the evidence and not on speculation and conjecture.
But as Lincoln said, 'the problem with common sense is that it isn't all that common.'
