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>We should all learn about the conspiracy fallacy

I'm not sure where you're going with this. Conspiracy fallacy is trivially observed by outsiders, and mentally ill people aren't going to suddenly back down from their arguments just because you pointed out their logic is fallacious.

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> and mentally ill people aren't going to suddenly back down from their arguments just because you pointed out their logic is fallacious

This assertion is tantamount to saying the entire field of psychology and psychotherapy is bullshit. That is literally all they do, talk you out of your erroneous beliefs about yourself and erroneous worldviews or habitually negative thoughts.

Well, the notion of fixing people by telling them whats wrong with them is bullshit. Lucky for us, most of psychology has moved beyond this antiquidated fruedian thinking.

No it isn’t, and one of the tenants of dealing with delusional people is that you don’t engage with their delusions, don’t try to refute them.

That would be like trying to help treat someone’s cold by preventing them from sneezing.

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