You know, we've all heard plenty about the happy, perky elves Santa's got working round the clock in his toy shop. But what of the plight of the be-sooted, emphysmic elves ceaselessly toiling in the perpetual darkness of Santa's coal mines? Will no-one shed a tear for the heartbreaking unseen collateral damage of the Naughty List?
Today marked the death of beloved performance artist Oral Roberts, best known for a 1986 prank in which he re-enacted the famous hostage-taking scene from the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles, casting God in the role of the "unseen kidnapper." His "Called Home" stunt was so wildly popular that he was able to raise more than 9 million dollars to continue his work in the entertainment field.
In any instance where the facts are not known there will be speculation, and often that speculation will reflect the political biases of the speculators. But the presence of questionable alternative explanations does not render the Official Story true by default. In fact, the opposite might tend to be true: When the Official Story seems conspicuously incomplete, a large number of alternative explanations will tend to propagate, most of which will be wrong.
If a puppy is placed into a herd of one hundred cattle, one cannot transform the puppy into a cow simply by "rounding down to zero." Ergo, sometimes things must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.