lol, oh man... at first, all I saw of this in the replies page was the "Sure, they believed what they were doing was "good" and "right" (as did Hitler -- Woot!..." and was getting prepared to write,

"ah, good ol' first world privileges - so easily thinking every person's decision at any point in time was so clearly black-or-white..."

and then, of course, I saw the rest of this. humbled.

your argumentative skills are on-point.

I appreciate your breakdown of the conspiracy definition, going the extra length to clarify the viewpoint.

indeed, most of us likely deeply desire freedom. I suppose it takes time to achieve, and experience in the contrast to summon the motivation to take matters into one's own hands to seize that freedom.

t'is quite the ride, all this evolution.

and t'is quite an interesting time, that we're probably closer to that freedom than ever before...