This can be a slippery slope, though. My mom fell into conspiracy theories, and a big part of that was thinking along the lines of “if you can’t explain how vaccines can’t cause autism, then I’m going to keep believing they do.” Silly me with my genetic counseling background made a small, simple slideshow about how the immune system and vaccines work, and of course she still said “you didn’t explain it well enough, so I still believe they cause autism.”
Essentially the strategy of “if you can’t explain why, it’s not worth doing” only works if the person asking truly wants to understand, and withholds forming an opinion until they have all the information they can gather, instead of just looking for an excuse to not do something. Like most things in life, it can be abused by bad actors.
This can be a slippery slope, though. My mom fell into conspiracy theories, and a big part of that was thinking along the lines of “if you can’t explain how vaccines can’t cause autism, then I’m going to keep believing they do.” Silly me with my genetic counseling background made a small, simple slideshow about how the immune system and vaccines work, and of course she still said “you didn’t explain it well enough, so I still believe they cause autism.”
Essentially the strategy of “if you can’t explain why, it’s not worth doing” only works if the person asking truly wants to understand, and withholds forming an opinion until they have all the information they can gather, instead of just looking for an excuse to not do something. Like most things in life, it can be abused by bad actors.
Of course, this was in the context of OP’s meme rejecting the rules of society / work / … without proper explanation.