n0m – I am not sure how to answer because I feel like you said a few different things, possibly overlapping or even contradictory. I’ll just respond and you will have to sort out which piece goes where, if you don’t mind.
I disagree with your first paragraph. If they only are thinking of the utility of the claim, then I catagorize them as not having thought about it.
I also don’t ever cross paths with card acrrying conspiracy theorists outside of this room so I wasn’t really including them.
I don’t think finding out the truth is as easy as clicking a link. I believe clicking the link is what fed them the garbage.
My response was about how laughable it is to think that if you have a different opinion it is because you didn’t think about it. As if everything he described that was half conspiracy and unproved and half truth was a result of HIM having thought about it, and now he “challenges” us to think lest we come up with something different. As if thinking about it could have brought him to his point in the first place.
Thinking about it, to me, means finding truth. If they did what you described as ‘using their minds’, then i don’t qualify that as having thought about it. Which is why I made the comment in the first place.
That’s my mish mash. Thanks for participating.