re: 5 Ways Every Conspiracy Theory Makes the World Worse

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Government funded education isn't designed to encourage critical thinking; most people aren't capable of it anyway. Once people start questioning things, who knows what dangerous ideas might come out of that?

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This is a platitude -- everyone already knows that education starts at home. The fact of the matter is: Tell your children to pursue truth rather than tell them what's right or wrong. Don't push your agenda on them, raise them to be critical of themselves especially.

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Agreed. However, the skepticism goes both ways; you can't tell someone not to be skeptical of a medical-industrial complex but that they should be skeptical of people telling them they should be skeptical. Yeah.

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Healthy skepticism, not skepticism for skepticisms' sake.

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There's a profit in vaccinations as well. Just sayin.

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There's also decades of life-saving research, evidence and scientific unanimity (moreso than anything else, really) regarding the experts.

If there was a vaccination conspiracy, they would need thousands of epidemiologists, virologists and dermatologists to agree, to collude, to bypass everything that it takes to be a doctor and a scientist.

And convince not a single one to come out against vaccinations.

That's not healthy skepticism, that's insanity.

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I don't want to vote people in who 'hate' government. I want people who want to limit the federal government's power, because I believe power corrupts.

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These are people who invariably have a dislike for government, which means that they will derail it at any given moment. Thus, we an inhibiting force when we could have one that recognizes the scope and scale of power and responsibility.

Now we won't have that for decades, because there are people who believe the federal government is bad and the state government is somehow magically incapable of enforcing draconian laws.