People are always surprised by other people's views on this subject...unless they happen to agree with them.

Nobody can fathom how the other guy couldn't possibly see it the way they do. ;-)

And you cannot determine by that division anything about those people on the other side...such as their intelligence level, their rationality, their sanity, or anything else. All you can determine from it is what they believe about 911. Period. They might be just as smart and rational and every other good thing as you are.

Each side would apparently love to live with the smug certainty that those who disagree with them are fools, crackpots, and idiots.

Alas! Life is just not that simple, kids. ;-D If it was, we'd all have been born wearing black hats and white hats...like in a 1950 Hollywood western.

And no one would have to think about anything then, would they? You could just kill all the guys wearing the black hats and feel quite righteous about it.