Where we disagree I guess is that I hope this kind of thinking is not “run of the mill”, and I think the emotions involved are being repressed. The thing about this sort of “skepticism” that gets to me is that it stops exactly where they want it to stop; it only exists to serve the purpose of the paranoia, and, being based on lack of reason, can’t be appealed to with facts. It’s like trying to argue a person out of a schizophrenic state.