[Excaliber]

If I was trying to hold a reasonable and logical conversation with someone it would matter to me if their thoughts were simply "cut and paste" from someone else or if they had their own original ideas, opinions, constructive criticism, etc.

Some folks are very sincere-ly mistaken in what they believe. I'm NOT drawing a comparison to Islamist beliefs and exteme right wing thinking here, but Islamist are certainly very sincere-ly mistaken, for example.