Kimmo Huosionmaa
When we are talking about conspiracy theories, we must realize that some of them are very dangerous, because they might cause the hate or persecution against some people. The best way to put the public safety in danger is of course claim that some murders are sol and the murderer is sitting in the jail. If those claims are wrong, there could die many more people in the hands of some brutal murderer, who slipped off the law enforcement, because some idiot claimed that those crimes were soluted.
I hope that those persons can look themselves in the mirror because those writings caused the slip of the serial killers. Or somebody didn't call the police in 9/11/2001 because somebody was claimed that terrorists cannot attack in the United States and the security checks of airports are only for making the passenger's life difficult. Those people always say that the metal detectors are enough to track the dangerous things from passengers clothes, but in the real world the titanium or chromium-nickel core makes even big handguns antimagnetic, and if the ammunition is closed in the bottle, what is airtight, the dogs don't smell the ammunition. And of course, the pieces of the broken glass can also use the knives. That's why we need those terahertz-scanners.
One example of dangerous theories is one of the oldest photographs, what Luis Daguerre took from his window in 1838. In those times the used shutter speed was so long, that the street seemed like empty and only two people are saved in the picture. The shoe cleaner and his client are only persons in the empty street, and that caused the rumors, that those persons were angels or vampires. That caused the hate in the people's mind, and those two persons were looked for witchcraft because people were very superstitious at that time. This episode is a good example how dangerous the rumor can be if the people don't know about the thing how some phenomenon will be created.
There are still people in Africa, who believes that human soul will be captured in the photograph, and that's why they afraid the cameras. In the real world, this kind of environment can become dangerous, if somebody claims that some people soul was taken to the film, and that's why we must be considered about some of the "theories" where people will stamp as the maniacs by newspapermen. Many times so-called "skeptical persons", will cause terrible financial losses, because they have the obsession to send all conspiracy theorists to the mental institute.
And of course, those persons will always represent the official line of the newspapers. In the official skepticism is one problem. Those people are so full of the need to prove that everybody who has different opinions of the things is some kind of mentally ill. And same persons will begin the witch-hunt against some people, who might be stayed in the situations like the picture of above shows. In some schoolyards is a phenomenon, that if somebody will speak some languages, what is not taught them by teachers is some kind of witch, and that will cause the isolation of the victim. One of the most dangerous ways to handle conspiracy theories is to stamp some crimes solved. If somebody will claim that example some serial killer is convicted, but in real life, this person will be free, the result could be a couple of murders more, but it doesn't mean anything to those persons. They just want to write about ice-hockey games and another kind of stuff.
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