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Originally Posted by Lebell
As to the charges that a plane didn't crash into the Pentagon, that ranks right up there with the charges that there wasn't *really* a holocaust and deserves the same consideration.
Too many people saw it happen...No more discussion necessary.
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When a number of TFPers ask serious questions about a serious subject, I find it very rude and patronizing to respond this way. You don't use any perjorative language, but comparing this to the holocaust (and by association, you compare some of us with the racist POSs that deny the holocaust) is pretty inflammatory.
When I first heard of people denying the holocaust, I did what I think anyone should do. I read, I asked, I explored. It didn't take long to conclude there was an infinite amount of evidence to prove the Holocaust deny-ers were idiots.
I *didn't* just spout what I had "heard". It costs nothing to open the mind, and check things out. One could argue that listening to the crazy/impossible is how progress is made.
To be extra-clear: the problem is not that people ask the question (about anything), the problem is when they deny the overwhelming evidence. I don't see the overwhelming evidence here, and I mostly believe a plane hit the Pentagon. Sheesh.
So that same process repeats. I ask, I read and I explore. And I'm told, essentially: "it happened; your question has no merit".
I was strangely hoping for more.
edited for clarity