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>This will only inflame conspiracy theory minded people to believe there is a vast conspiracy by the powerful to protect themselves. How is that a conspiracy?
by wtknn 7y ago
>This will only inflame conspiracy theory minded people to believe there is a vast conspiracy by the powerful to protect themselves.
How is that a conspiracy?
- mc32 7y agoWell people in that sphere were already predicting he’d “commit” suicide to avoid getting powerful people ensnared.
- wtknn 7y agoWhat I mean is that I don't think that's a conspiracy, it's reasonable to think that in the world elites they look after each other
- malloci 7y agoThat’s the very definition of conspiracy: “a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.”
- calibas 7y agoIf you believe that when the elite "look after each other" they abuse their power in illegal and unethical ways, then technically you're a "conspiracy theorist" along with the vast majority of the population. Edit: And the story has been removed from the HN front page, despite being one of the most popular...
- wtknn 7y agoWell, it just happened.
- matt-attack 7y agoThat’s literally “conspiring together”. That’s all conspiracy means. It means some occurrence wasn’t just a fluke action of luck or even of just one guy. It was a group of people “conspiring” together. Think JFK. Did a group conspire? Or was it just Oswald?
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- deogeo 7y ago'Conspiracy' is not synonymous with 'untrue'. I'd advise everyone in the comments to keep that in mind, and state things unambiguously, to avoid arguing past each-other.
- gurkendoktor 7y agoI've been curious why "conspiracy theory" is used exclusively as a pejorative. Turns out that Wikipedia defines it as such: > A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful actors, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable. But who gets to define what is more probable? Why not just "when there is no proof (yet)"? But I guess that battle and term are lost.
- deogeo 7y agoWhich raises the question - how do you describe an explanation that justifiably (or at least plausibly) relies on conspiracy?
- NikkiA 7y agoYou generally refer to named actors as 'conspiring together'. The definition of a 'conspiracy theory' is almost dependant on the actors being unknown or unconfirmed, and thus isn't a provable act of conspiracy versus an implausible crazyness.
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