(January 26, 2015 at 12:47 am)NuclearJaguar Wrote: I don't understand deniers. It's just stupidity.
With 9/11, to a point, I get the sentiment that some of these nutjobs think it might have been set up, to give an excuse to go gallivanting in the Middle East. I don't believe it myself, too much evidence says otherwise, but I get the sentiment is what I'm saying.
Sandy Hook though... why? What benefit to the US government or military would killing a load of innocent school kids and pinning it on a crazy teen bring? There's no rational explanation for making a conspiracy theory out of that.
I understand them, not in the way you think.
The natural explanation is in evolution. The reality of nature and the universe is that it is messy and imperfect. So is biological life.
Our species evolved to pattern seek. The flaw in that natural evolution is that our species will gap fill to explain why they see the patterns they do. That does provide the real benefit of group cooperation and more opportunity for resources and potential to make offspring. But that forming of a group can be centered around a flat out false idea.
The Egyptians were successful for 3,000 years falsely believing in a sun god. Dawkins describes this evolutionary flaw in his book "The God Delusion" as "the moth mistaking the light bulb for moonlight".
It is the same gap filling an antelope on the African plane might make in having to make a sudden guess as to if the swaying grass is a stalking lion or if it is merely the wind.
