# A Question About One-track Posters Impervious to Discussion

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**Created:** [October 16, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-one-track-posters-impervious-to-discussion/799052 "2017-10-16T14:00:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-one-track-posters-impervious-to-discussion/799052/28 "2017-10-16T20:32:51Z")

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> [@DSYoungEsq](#):
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> Why do you all care?
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> Here’s my thought: anyone who is posting in that thread is getting exactly what they deserve. And probably, they are enjoying it. If they don’t like what’s going on, stop clicking on the thread.

Yep. This is, IMO, all that needs to be said on the subject.

It may be that there are people who want to genuinely have a discussion about these sorts of controversial topics, and who want to try and actually understand how/whether the conspiracy theories are plausible, and how/whether they are contradicted by proper evidence.

But those people don’t generally start threads like this:

> [@Who cares to debate the events of 9/11/2001 based upon the laws of physics?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-cares-to-debate-the-events-of-9-11-2001-based-upon-the-laws-of-physics/798861/1):
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> That is various bits from the alleged airliner crashes to the fall of skyscrapers,  
> constitute violations of the laws of physics if the official explanation is to be accepted.
> 
> who whats to discuss this matter?

That’s not an opening to a debate or a rational discussion. It doesn’t even conform to the norms of spelling and grammar and sentence structure, let along making an informed argument about the laws of physics. It’s nothing more than bait, and anyone in that thread who contributed more than one smart-ass post before walking away is, as **DSYoungEsq** notes, getting exactly what they deserve.

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