Re:Jeffrey Epstein documents to be unsealed, potentially rev...
by happytoexplain on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:39AM
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>Yet people will still believe that 0% of theories are correct.
This is not a generous portrayal. The people you're talking about mostly believe things based on experience (e.g. evidence, though there are many other kinds of experience). Therefore, if their experience tells them something a person is insisting on is probably not true, well then that's their perfectly reasonable position at the time. That is not the same as having a conviction that any given thing is not true, and it is very much not the same as believing that "0%" of anything widely considered a "conspiracy theory" are true, for all cases, forever, as some kind of ridiculous rule.
This is not a generous portrayal. The people you're talking about mostly believe things based on experience (e.g. evidence, though there are many other kinds of experience). Therefore, if their experience tells them something a person is insisting on is probably not true, well then that's their perfectly reasonable position at the time. That is not the same as having a conviction that any given thing is not true, and it is very much not the same as believing that "0%" of anything widely considered a "conspiracy theory" are true, for all cases, forever, as some kind of ridiculous rule.