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Connecting all these dots in these extreme ways, like you said.
But I think I agree that it comes back to that human nature aspect that we don't like uncertainty.
We don't like something to be unexplained.
We don't like it when all the facts don't match up exactly as we expect.
It makes us uncomfortable.
We don't want to be there.
So we find another way to say, well, what is a theory that would explain everything?
Or what is a way that it would...
You know, have all the facts in a nice straight line, even though life isn't like that, just because it makes us feel better.
It makes us feel more comfortable or, you know, allows us to say, OK, now it's all explained, even if it is kind of a ridiculous explanation.
I'm all for asking questions and examining things and trying to make sense of the world with that analysis.
But I guess what I would challenge people to do is to say, number one, don't go into it with some bias like you think you know the answer and you're just going to line up all the facts to match that.
Because you can probably convince yourself of anything if you really want to.
And you'll come up with a theory that makes it work.
But I think the other part is it just, and Scott said this part as well, that when you see something where someone's making a case for a particular theory, go look up the debunk.
Go look up the other side.
And for these controversial things like this, they're always out there.
Someone will say, oh, it's definitely not Tyler Robinson and here's all the facts.
And then you'll have someone else who deconstructs that video and explains why none of that makes sense at all.
Well, I'm not saying that there aren't gaps in a lot of these things.