Many people project their altruism on to the government and they think because I would never lie about that, there's no way they could therefore all these conspiracy theorists and what they're saying can't possibly be true. Even if all the evidence is on their side, there'sno way because I just don't want to believe that someone could do something like this. It's a really interesting social, psychological phenomenon to me. The cognitive dissonance that is born out of you being a good person, therefore you literally can't put yourself in the shoes of a psychopath. Because you wouldn't be because you're a cool person. Exactly.

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