Thing is, Ghost, when folk believe something they've been told, read about or seen it doesn't mean they do so because they don't have questioning minds. I agree, there will be loads who do but, at the same time, a lot of people would look at something like that, weigh up the evidence and go 'did that happen? Aye, it did'.
The problem with questioning everything is that, sooner or later you run into people who have an agenda for doubting stuff.
Sometimes it's a desire to not be taken for a fool or a determination not to follow the crowd-both laudable sentiments, in my opinion, but, again in my opinion, there are better ways of setting your stall out. There are the bonkers folk like the flat-earthers who ignore scientific fact?? Then there are folk who are suspicious of everything 'authority' tells us and, increasingly with the way the media is manipulated by governments (or their supporters who control the news organisations) then a bit of scepticism is healthy. But then you get to the darker areas such as 9/11 or, far worse, the holocaust deniers.
Especially with the holocaust deniers, that becomes not only insanely disrespectful to the memory 12 million or more people who died (the 6 million Jews figure sometimes makes folk forget the other millions of Russians, Poles, Yugoslavs, etc who also died) but is also ignoring the mountains of incontrovertible evidence about what happened and gives power to the sort of people -Nazis, Islamic terrorists, etc who would be happy to see such a thing repeated.
Similarly, denying some of the amazing feats achieved by humans...well, it just deprives you of celebrating something positive about our short time here cos god knows there's enough sh
ite to get miserable about. (I hope you don't think this is directed at you and what you do or don't believe, mind, Ghost-just your post set me off thinking along those lines.
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I agree we should be open minded but, sometimes, sh
it happens.