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We should all learn about the conspiracy fallacy: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/74/Conspiracy_Theory https://www.logicallyfal

We should all learn about the conspiracy fallacy: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/74/Conspiracy_Theory https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla... (Which doesn't claim that no conspiracies exist, only disputing the claim that the conspirators are hiding the evidence against them as evidence itself) I also see an external locus of control worldview. "Things are done to me" instead of "I star in my own show". That is associated with depression and possibly other psychological disorders. http://www.kellevision.com/kellevision/2009/06/depression-helplessness-hopelessness-and-external-locus-of-control.html http://www.kellevision.com/kellevision/2009/06/depression-he...

deadmetheny 9y ago
>We should all learn about the conspiracy fallacy I'm not sure where you're going with this. Conspiracy fallacy is trivially observed by outsiders, and mentally ill people aren't going to suddenly back down from their arguments just because you pointed out their logic is fallacious.
- pmarreck 9y ago
  > and mentally ill people aren't going to suddenly back down from their arguments just because you pointed out their logic is fallacious This assertion is tantamount to saying the entire field of psychology and psychotherapy is bullshit. That is literally all they do, talk you out of your erroneous beliefs about yourself and erroneous worldviews or habitually negative thoughts.
  - Zeta_Function 9y ago
    No it isn’t, and one of the tenants of dealing with delusional people is that you don’t engage with their delusions, don’t try to refute them. That would be like trying to help treat someone’s cold by preventing them from sneezing.
  - nugi 9y ago
    Well, the notion of fixing people by telling them whats wrong with them is bullshit. Lucky for us, most of psychology has moved beyond this antiquidated fruedian thinking.

deadmetheny 9y ago

>We should all learn about the conspiracy fallacy I'm not sure where you're going with this. Conspiracy fallacy is trivially observed by outsiders, and mentally ill people aren't going to suddenly back down from their arguments just because you pointed out their logic is fallacious.

pmarreck 9y ago
> and mentally ill people aren't going to suddenly back down from their arguments just because you pointed out their logic is fallacious This assertion is tantamount to saying the entire field of psychology and psychotherapy is bullshit. That is literally all they do, talk you out of your erroneous beliefs about yourself and erroneous worldviews or habitually negative thoughts.
- Zeta_Function 9y ago
  No it isn’t, and one of the tenants of dealing with delusional people is that you don’t engage with their delusions, don’t try to refute them. That would be like trying to help treat someone’s cold by preventing them from sneezing.
- nugi 9y ago
  Well, the notion of fixing people by telling them whats wrong with them is bullshit. Lucky for us, most of psychology has moved beyond this antiquidated fruedian thinking.