The user incorrectly asserts that it’s somehow easier to kill millions of people than to not kill millions of people.
I see this flawed line of thinking whenever I point out that a terror event like New Zealand is a fake hoax with no authentic deaths. People always say “the government doesn’t care, they would just kill people, it would be a lot easier than faking it.”
This is not a perfect comparison because obviously Germans were not trying to fake a genocide, it was just a matter of propaganda and editing history that took place after the war.
But still, the idea that it’s easier for anyone to commit mass murder and deal with covering up their crime for the rest of their lives than just to put some fake actors on television talking about a shooting that didn’t happen is so absurd on many levels.
Another thing the Holocaust makes me think of is that so many people have accepted that it is almost entirely a fabrication, involving generations of conspirators disseminating propaganda, outright lying, literal historical revision, easily one of the biggest and most far-fetched sounding “conspiracy theories” in the world.... but they somehow don’t think a relatively tiny terrorist shooting or bombing could ever be faked.
The cognitive dissonance of being a Holocaust revisionist/denier yet thinking the TELEVISION is telling you the truth about a mass shooting is so bizarre to me.
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blackguard19 ago
One logical fallacy to point out:
The user incorrectly asserts that it’s somehow easier to kill millions of people than to not kill millions of people.
I see this flawed line of thinking whenever I point out that a terror event like New Zealand is a fake hoax with no authentic deaths. People always say “the government doesn’t care, they would just kill people, it would be a lot easier than faking it.”
This is not a perfect comparison because obviously Germans were not trying to fake a genocide, it was just a matter of propaganda and editing history that took place after the war.
But still, the idea that it’s easier for anyone to commit mass murder and deal with covering up their crime for the rest of their lives than just to put some fake actors on television talking about a shooting that didn’t happen is so absurd on many levels.
Another thing the Holocaust makes me think of is that so many people have accepted that it is almost entirely a fabrication, involving generations of conspirators disseminating propaganda, outright lying, literal historical revision, easily one of the biggest and most far-fetched sounding “conspiracy theories” in the world.... but they somehow don’t think a relatively tiny terrorist shooting or bombing could ever be faked.
The cognitive dissonance of being a Holocaust revisionist/denier yet thinking the TELEVISION is telling you the truth about a mass shooting is so bizarre to me.