In the legal sense, it's not clear that you are being defamed just because a crazy person believes crazy things for crazy reasons. The article goes into how (an

In the legal sense, it's not clear that you are being defamed just because a crazy person believes crazy things for crazy reasons. The article goes into how (and why) the standard is (usually) higher than that. It's not clear what should happen differently. The court can't enforce the private mental states of random citizens; there could be millions of cranks right now who believe that you're a murderer and are talking about you behind your back. Unless their beliefs come from factual claims that they know are false, it's not clear what recourse the courts should offer you.