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The way to counter and shed light on conspiracy theories is to construct an alternative similar theory and then ask, why do you believe this instead of this? S
by galaxyLogic 6y ago
The way to counter and shed light on conspiracy theories is to construct an alternative similar theory and then ask, why do you believe this instead of this?
Say you believe that Hillary is a pedophile. Why don't you believe that Donald Trump is?
- Geminidog 6y agoYou're just questioning your own biases. Your own bias has nothing to do with whether or not someone is a pedophile. Wherever you bias lies, if someone obtained pictures of Hillary conducting pedophilic actions your bias will be irrelevant against the content of those pictures.
- galaxyLogic 6y agoI'm thinking more of the case where there is clear evidence but there also are people who refuse to believe the evidence. I may produce some evidence but you say it is manufactured. In such case how can I convince you you should open your mind to the possibility that the evidence is real? I think one way might be to get the person to question their reasons for why they believe them, why not as well believe something else? In such a case an honest and open-minded person might say hey maybe I believe what I have believed so far because that is what I WANT to believe. Say I believe Trump won the election. Maybe I believe so because I want to believe it is true.