It comes down to methodology. Any way you can think of to fight something by actually opressively destroying it, in a free society, will fail. The reason for this is that it’s not something that can be fought with aggression, most of the time anyway. It has to be fought carefully, or your combat will simply fuel anything that feeds on strife and fear. Which conspiracies do, it’s exactly what they feed on.
To make an analogy, it’s not Batman that Gotham needs. It’s lots of money, doctors and teachers. It doesn’t need violence, it doesn’t need evil people being punched in the face, it needs better medical treatment and fairer laws.
That’s a very naive view, and ignores the existence of legitimately harmful opinions that must be fought
It comes down to methodology. Any way you can think of to fight something by actually opressively destroying it, in a free society, will fail. The reason for this is that it’s not something that can be fought with aggression, most of the time anyway. It has to be fought carefully, or your combat will simply fuel anything that feeds on strife and fear. Which conspiracies do, it’s exactly what they feed on.
To make an analogy, it’s not Batman that Gotham needs. It’s lots of money, doctors and teachers. It doesn’t need violence, it doesn’t need evil people being punched in the face, it needs better medical treatment and fairer laws.