A lot of people feel the need to preface their statements by saying "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but", but by simply theorizing about a conspiracy, that makes you a conspiracy theorist.... and there's nothing inherently wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with being interested in conspiracies. Just because you're a conspiracy theorist, that in no way means that you automatically believe every single conspiracy out there. But from a simple thought experiment point of view, they're just interesting

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

People really are just afraid of being associated with that term. I call this the “conspiracy” conspiracy. The term “conspiracy” is definitely a conspiracy in and of itself because the media has made sure that the terms “conspiracy theory”, “conspiracy theorist”, or even simply “conspiracy” have as negative of connotations as possible, so that as soon as people even hear or see the word “conspiracy”, they automatically dismiss and reject anything associated with it, refuse to look any further into it, and think of it as crazy/bad.

It's always important to keep an open mind and to be able to hear different sides and perspectives to every story instead of only getting your info from one source and automatically believing it without question.... as if the mainstream media or government never ever lies or omits anything