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[quote=FruminousBandersnatch][quote=Anonymous][quote=FruminousBandersnatch][quote=Anonymous]It bugs me that they put believing there was a conspiracy about the JFK assassination in with that lineup of nuttery. I am surprised anew every time I realize people don't know there's no way LHO could have acted alone. 
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We all like to think that we are rational and logical evaluators of evidence. So people are always surprised when someone doesn't come to the same conclusion they did about something.

Communities of conspiracy theorists find each other on the web now, and share their theories, analyses, etc., and reinforce each other's belief about their given conspiracy theory to the point where belief in that theory becomes a part of the person's identity.[/quote]

Oh, dear. You can just say you don't know much about the subject and leave it at that, rather than pretend to be some cold, hard marshall of the facts.[/quote]

If that makes you more comfortable with your particular conspiracy theory, ok, I don't know much about why you believe there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

However, what I said was consistent with the psychological and sociological research on conspiracy theories, in general, and if I (or anyone else) were to try to reason with you based on the facts about the Kennedy assassination, the research says that would more than likely harden your belief and make you adhere to it even more strongly. (You might be the exception, but the research shows that's the general result.)
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