[ClumsyPilot]

Q: How many witches have to burn before you accept that inquisition is doing something wrong?

A: As many as it takes for god to interfere.

i.e. You are just staying wilfully ignorant

Here is a recent case from Britain, there was evidence and the government covered it up. It took almost 50 years for us to learn the truth.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-68881821

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That doesn't make any sense. You're calling someone ignorant for favoring evidence over hearsay and hysteria. That's the exact opposite of witch trials, where the whole concept is finding guilt without evidence.

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> i.e. You are just staying wilfully ignorant

You're trying to defend a conspiracy theory by saying that waiting for even a shred of actual evidence is willfully ignorant? Really? And your point of comparison is a religious belief, something by definition not based on evidence? Wow.

[ClumsyPilot]

Apologies, I put my argument across poorly.

Here is an illustration that demonstrates that the OP’s expectation is unrealistic and that nobody here actually thinks that way:

Dozens of Putin’s opponents died by falling out of a window, and no evidence of any kind was found that they were murdered. However, if I clam that Putin’s opponents were murdered, nobody calls it a conspiracy theory. Why?

Because a) we would not be told if there was physical evidence b) dozens of specific people dying suspiciously is statistically impossible, that is evidence in its own right.

So either the OP thinks that Putin is innocent, in which case his opinion is questionable

Or his position is based on a-priory trust to an institution and not on evidence, in which case it is also questionable.

It is probably the second - some people trust Boeing and some people think, hey, they already killed several hundred passengers, civility and sanity can no longer be taken for granted.

But as improbably events happen more and more, a sane person must shift their position to account for this. Ignoring improbably events and demanding physical evidence as people die would be madness.

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Evidence of Putin murdering opponents has been discovered. Alexander Litvinenko being an excellent example.

The problem with your speculation as it relates to Boeing is that you have extrapolated from “someone had someone killed once” to “everyone who dies was assassinated”. I don’t believe you are making such an assertion but you’re attacking the method of thinking that avoids it.

You need to leave some room for there to be other causes of death, even in cases that feel suspicious. If there are suspicious circumstances they should and will be investigated. But if nothing nefarious is found that’s not evidence of foul play.