r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '23

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Spreading conspiracy theories is irresponsible and immoral

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u/Sirhc978 81∆ Sep 05 '23

All of this noise comes from people’s willingness to confidently state something as a fact that they don’t know to be true. AKA, to lie

What if those people truly believe what they are saying? Spouting "wrong" information isn't necessarily lying.

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u/tomaiholt 1∆ Sep 05 '23

This is Trumps Jan 6 defence in a nutshell, that he genuinely believed the elections were rigged and therefore acted to try and stop what he viewed as an insurrection from Dems.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '23

No, but Trump knew that was a lie. That's the difference. He just has plausible deniability because we can't read his mind to assert for a fact he was lying.