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Quote by: GHook Some are believable! Some are ridiculous! And some are highly offensive and insulting. The majority are non-senses. |
I find myself in the most unaccustomed position of agreeing with GHook.
A conspiracy theory is neither more nor less than the idea that event X (and let's face it, 911 is at the back of everybody's mind here) came about as a result of people conspiring to make it so rather than through blind chance.
To say that conspiracy theories are bullshit is to claim that conspiracies don't occur. But history teaches us that they definitely sometimes do.
Why are some people particularly partial to them, blaming every last circumstance on a conspiracy? I think because some people's outrage can tolerate only an explanation in which there's a blear Black Hat victimizing a clear White Hat, rather than the alternative explanation that it's a chaotic ol' universe we live in, and shit happens.
But again, you can hide some pretty big conspiracies behind the shit-happens explanation.