How stupid do you have to be to believe in the 911 conspiracy theories?

Question

i have a friend, who i know is intelligent, but ever since i learned that he believes any of this nonsense (and he believes it all) i find myself questioning his intelligence and overall opinion....its one thing to be a democrat, everybody has opinions, it makes for good conversation but these theories are sooooooooooo stupid i mean seriously, you could beat me in the head with a hammer for a few hours and i would still know that it was nonsense

Answer 1

Liberals love stuff they can't prove. Bush was AWOL, Diebold stole the election, Sasquatch killed JFK, Rove outed Plame, Yellowcake from Niger and on and on.

They are so silly!!

Answer 2

The costs of 9/11 would always far outweigh any benefits from it. Furthermore, engineering the conspiracy to turn out exactly the way it did would involve far too many uncontrollable variables for any one person or group to know that it would work well enough to attempt it. The biggest evidence against the conspiracies to me is the families of passengers on the planes and the airlines.

Answer 3

To the first post: yes, I agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Still, just because you can believe in something doesn't mean you should. If I was convinced that I could jump off of a 20 story building and come though unscathed, would that make it anything less than idiocy, just because I have the right to believe it? Just because people have opinions doesn't make them right, or even close. You can be entitled to believe what you want, but it doesn't make you any less of an idiot for believing something stupid.

Answer 4

I wouldn't call them stupid. They are just misinformed.

This is a classic case of belief over science. I'm a chemist with specialties in environmental science and metallurgy and my wife is an architectural engineer. We've both read extensively, pro and con on this issue and we feel our opinions, that things happened pretty much they've been portrayed in the media, are correct. Terrorists, planes, towers collapsed from the heat, yada, yada, yada.

That being said, I have a similar problem with those who "don't" believe that man is adversely affecting the environment, vis-s-vis global warming. I have a problem with those who don't "buy into" evolution.

Those "non-believers" are similarly misinformed.

Answer 5

I also have friends that believe in this , of course they also believe the bar codes at wal-mart can track you and is a government conspiracy . I try my best not to bring up anything that has to do with politics when speaking to them

Answer 6

Watch the documentary Loose Change (You Tube)---former FBI director Robert Meuller states that 10 of the 20 supposed hijackers are still alive and astonished to see that they were suspects. So then who was flying the planes?

Crimes are motivated by money sometimes and this is the case here. 9/11 was perpetrated by heinous acts for greedy miliatry industrial purposes

Answer 7

It is insane but your friend knows that but he spills the lie because he hates Busch, Mike Moore and the NY times have to much power, but in a free society, it is up to clear thinking people like you to tell the truth and vote

Answer 8

First of all, they're not stupid.

Although I don't believe the conspiracy theory, each individual is entitled to believe what they want. We can only hope that the truth will shed some light on their lives.

Answer 9

It's not a matter of lack of intelligence, but lack of common sense, lack of wisdom, too much gullibility and naivete, lack of a firm grounding in reality, and most importantly, a lack of a healthy sense of skepticism.

Answer 10

My brother believes that was a conspiracy and he calls me stupid because I don't believe that it was..I quit talking to him

Answer 11

Ever since the Iran Contra/Sandanista incident, I have never put anything past the U.S. government.

Some of those theories are outrageous, though.