Oh God.
All the above conspiracy theories are completely and totally rational - as long as you have no prior experience with the irritatingly real real world and don't dig too deep. (Read: Below the first layer of evidence.) If aliens were to actually take over Area Fifty-One, chances are we would have heard about it by now. The truth: yours truly the Government is testing top secret aircraft. As for global warming not being real, ice cores beg to differ. The truth: people want to say it's not happening because doing nothing is easier if you think you're not killing your own race in the future. The moon landing? Well, we have two rovers on MARS, which is that much farther away, constantly sending video to us of what they're doing. I'm sure if we can put so much as a pebble on Mars, we can get a man on the moon. You can take a step if you can leap a mile.
The Holocaust conspiracy: The Jews wanted to benefit at the expense of others. Let's take a look at what I just said, shall we?
The Jews wanted to benefit at the expense of others. To accomplish this, they starved and massacred themselves even though they had absolutely no certainty they would benefit from it. That sounds quite rat-- what the $#!@ are you thinking?!
Two Americans have a conversation about how to rip off Europe.
John: Hey, let's go kill six million Americans so Europe will give us stuff! :D
Joe: Yeah, that sounds like a great idea! :D
Do you really think anyone in America would put up for this? Do you think they would have even managed 6,000 before the whole US army is waiting for them wherever they go? Do you think I'm not going to address the counter-argument of the deaths being faked?
If you said "no, no, and no" then you're absolutely correct. There's no way I would just let two strangers walk up to me, say "Hey, we're going to kill you so Europe will give us stuff :D", and not do my best to defend myself. Multiply that by hundreds of people, and they're both in jail already.
As for it being a total lie and no one actually did die... Note: These cannot be unseen, unless you have no soul.
There's an enormous hole. It's got hundreds of bodies in it.
A mound of bodies in it. The people were so starved you can almost literally see their bones through the skin.
Presumably an 'order' of Jews, killed on schedule, in a gas chamber.
Each one of those people were living, thinking human beings with three-dimensional personalities. Unless you live in a supercity like Beijing, New York, or Los Angeles, chances are your city ranks nowhere near six million people. Everyone in the city you live in would probably have to die more than once to even be within an order of magnitude of six million. A thousand people dying can't even be grasped by the human brain. How much further removed must six million people be?
Oh, and the Pearl Harbor bombing is a conspiracy too. I'm sure the USA just decided "Yeah, okay, we weren't in the war but now we're going to drop a nuclear bomb on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki!"
Do conspiracy theorists just look for the biggest thing in recent history and yell "FAKE!"?
I really enjoyed reading this entry. You take a very serious subject and approach it with a good dose of cynicism and sarcasm. It does seem ridiculous, doesn't it, that people really think the Holocaust didn't happen? But they're out there! I can't explain it either! *sigh*
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