Re:Jeffrey Epstein documents to be unsealed, potentially rev...
by happytoexplain on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:20AM
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This attitude implies a wealth of fallacies, including:
- The category of things under the umbrella "conspiracy theory" are necessarily either all ridiculous or all plausible.
- There is some thread binding all conspiracy theories together such that if one is validated, the rest become more plausible (but not the other way around).
- Epstein's guilt was considered to be a conspiracy theory in the "ridiculous" category by many.
- Baseless theories can not be true.
- If a theory turns out to be true, then any prior criticism of it is invalid or somehow "bad" and should not have been applied even at the time.
More than anything, though, this attitude insists on an "us vs them" model that antagonizes people who are, holistically taken, more reasonable than the imagined enemy.
- The category of things under the umbrella "conspiracy theory" are necessarily either all ridiculous or all plausible.
- There is some thread binding all conspiracy theories together such that if one is validated, the rest become more plausible (but not the other way around).
- Epstein's guilt was considered to be a conspiracy theory in the "ridiculous" category by many.
- Baseless theories can not be true.
- If a theory turns out to be true, then any prior criticism of it is invalid or somehow "bad" and should not have been applied even at the time.
More than anything, though, this attitude insists on an "us vs them" model that antagonizes people who are, holistically taken, more reasonable than the imagined enemy.