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Originally Posted by chedder
I don't think it's mental illness, just stupidity and picking a tribe. There are always people that want to be counter culture and anti-social. This pandemic just brought them out in the extreme.
And, as far as being a great hockey player, who cares. There are probably just as many pro athletes that are complete a#@holes as good people. Just like normal society. They just happen to be able to shoot a puck.
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I don’t know, to me stupid is that you’re just not that intelligent and can’t understand concepts very well. The driver of these sorts of theories is paranoia and mistrust, usually in relation to someone or something with authority. Most of the conspiracy theories are something around the world’s elite or powerful being up to something nefarious, and the conspiracy theorist is awake to the truth about the situation. Any factual evidence to the contrary is just rejected as being a lie, or the person presenting the factual information is part of the scheme and somehow benefiting from it. Sounds more like mental illness to me.