I see this term float around the internet a lot but to this day the Google definitions have done nothing but confuse me further
EDIT: OMG I didn’t expect this post to blow up in just a few hours! Thank you all for making such clear and easy to follow explanations, and thank you for the awards!
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“You should assume the simplest solution is true.”
If the possibilities are
1. Your partner cheated on you
2. Your partner was temporarily mind controlled by aliens
Option 1 requires one assumption: Your partner was a worse person than you realized. This is an entire plausible assumption, though a heartbreaking one.
Option 2 requires a LOT of assumptions that are all ridiculous. That aliens exist, that they’re here on Earth, that we haven’t detected them (or that there’s a grand conspiracy), that mind control tech is possible, that aliens have it, that aliens have any interest in you or your partner or splitting you up for some reason, and more.
So, according to the piece of advice we call Occam’s Razor, even though there’s technically zero evidence at all that your partner *wasn’t* mind controlled by aliens, you should assume they just cheated on you. Until proven otherwise, you should assume the simplest solution is true.
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