How seriously should we take conspiracy theories? (Like my theory, explained earlier this afternoon, about Coca-Cola profiteering on the idea that smaller bottles of soda pop are somehow more healthy or more earth-friendly, as distinct from merely being more profitable for Coca-Cola.)
My husband used to say that unless someone has hard evidence that a conspiracy theory is factually true, we should ignore it altogether.
I'm not altogether convinced. Sometimes just calling awareness to how someone could do something undesirable, if someone tried, can help us prevent the undesirable act before it occurs. You don't have to have proof that anybody particularly wants to steal your car today before you lock your car doors, right? You know that there are a lot more cars than there are car thieves, and the odds are that no car thief is in your area, but you don't want to make it easy for any car thief who might have designs on your car.
I don't have to have proof that any specific group of Libyans or Muslims want to impose censorship on the United States, or that President Barack Hussein Obama (or anyone else) would let them try it, to agree with Tiffany Gabbay that Americans should clearly oppose all forms of censorship.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/more-than-a-movie-experts-claim-real-reason-for-u-s-embassy-attacks-is-much-more-sinister/
Muslims have to accept that individuals have the right to express themselves as they see fit, and the consequence of expressing themselves by making tacky, tasteless, trashy movies should be ostracism and contempt and personal ill will, as distinct from a violent crime that the United States could well choose to construe as an act of war.
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