I'm "special pleading" because I way overgeneralized in my initial attempt at a definition. > conspiracy consists of one or more people cooperating with "each

I'm "special pleading" because I way overgeneralized in my initial attempt at a definition. > conspiracy consists of one or more people cooperating with "each other" in public. Public doesn't have to have anything to do with it. > What are we supposed to have learned? Yes, I overgeneralized. In general the thing to learn is to try to reality check as much as possible. > The modal case is that, when someone makes a claim about their own motives, they are lying. Granting this point, a razor would attribute base motivations over complex motivations.