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by kodah 1311 days ago
> How are you going to bring irrational people back to rational society?

This is probably where our work needs to be, and I agree it's not everyone's burden to undertake. It's taxing and requires a lot of emotional energy that some might not have. My personal experience with people that believed in conspiracies is that with enough normal human contact they eventually adjust. Sometimes there's an underlying issue that leads to conspiratorial thinking; I'm not even necessarily talking about mental health. It could be financial or interpersonal.

I'm just saying that the alternative of banishment isn't great. It doesn't dissolve the things we don't want, generally.