Quote Originally Posted by redhaze
Why you guys feel the need to believe this stuff in spite of all evidence as well as basic common sense I just will never understand.
Some people just have trouble dealing with the fact that we live in a world where horrible shit happens and/or people do extraordinarily nasty things to each other. They feel a lack of control on their lives so they need to order it in a way that makes sense to them and gives them a sense of power if not actual control over it - they can see the machinations of the shadowy forces behind it all, the normal 'sheeple' can't.

I've seen it described: "Conspiracy theories are labor-saving devices and home remedies for anxiety and depression [...] It shrinks the unreasonable world down so you “can get your mind around it.”