[sandworm101]

>> I implore you to seek out your opposite. When you hear someone cite “facts” that don’t support your viewpoint don’t think “that can’t be true!” Instead consider, “Hm, maybe that person is right? I should look into this.”

Nooop. When the crazy uncle starts going on about how the lizard people at the US have formed a world government for the express purpose of using solar panels to take guns away from seniors ... no. There are ideas that are not worth my time to explore or disprove. So long as the crazy people stick to their crazy shacks, I am not going to engage.

Of course those crazies seem to be breeding uncontrollably. It may be time to reverse my position and actually start researching the vril.

[ocdtrekkie]

Well, we all generally agree that there aren't 'lizard people' in the US (we do agree that, right? ...right?), but increasingly less crazy ideas are now being regarded as similarly crazy.

[sandworm101]

Like the US president is a secret muslim from kenya in office to take away the guns in furtherance of the global warming hoax? I see aspects of that narrative on TV almost every day. It's a daily reality for millions and millions of americans.

[ocdtrekkie]

None of those concepts are as crazy as lizard people, are they?

[sandworm101]

Well they are both rather unlikely, but at least the lizard thing is testable. Poke the guy with a stick and see. Question answered. The other theories cannot be so easily disproved.

[tamana]

Practically speaking, you can't personally poke the guy with a stick, and you don't trust the people who claim they have poked him. That's the unresolvable problem in the debate, same as with Muslim, guns, climate, autism, etc.