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Picture this. A building is on fire. Standing outside of it is a person yelling loudly "I didn't start this fire!". Nobody is asking him if he started the fire. But he just keeps standing there, yelling at nobody in particular. He doesn't seek cover or anything. He just tells any person he sees that the fire isn't his fault.
And you don't believe this is odd behavior?
Thats a complete failure to interpret or mischaracterization of my entire point about the smear campaign against the movie. In your fire analogy a better characterization would be:
A building is on fire. Standing outside of it is a person yelling loudly "This building is on fire!". Nobody is asking him what started the fire or why he is worried about the fire since buildings catch on fire multiple times a year. But he just keeps standing there yelling at anyone that will listen. Then he is approached by members of the crowd that has gathered who all berate him for being so loud and abnoxious and explain to him that house fires happen all the time and to let the authorities handle it, that it's not really an issue to be concerned with. Then another member of the crowd says, "Hey! I know someone that donated to this building fund when it was being built, and he was accessory to arson! So shut up about this building being on fire, it was only built by people that approve of arson!"
You don't believe this is odd behavior?
I get you, it's just that the guy who is yelling about the fire was also the guy in front of the pizza joint last week yelling about lizard people. And the week before that he was in front of the library rambling about JFK and the CIA.
Listen no one wants the building to be on fire. Let's start a bucket brigade, join the volunteer fire fighters. I just am weary of being associated with this crazy dude.
Fair enough, not all (or even most) conspiracies are true but we shouldn't immediately disregard them because they are labeled so. But as long as we both agree the building shouldn't remain on fire and that we can't leave it up to solely the authorities who have a history of letting the building burn to ashes before showing up with the water, you are perfectly fine in my eyes. We all don't have to agree on every topic as long as when there is a fire we all grab a bucket.