How does my belief that ufos are in the every least an otherworldly phenomena constitute a threat to me?
In your case, that belief has already taken over a lot of your brain space, so it's not just a threat any more. You're literally wasting a portion of your life on that nonsense. You're
choosing to waste it that way. You're so far gone, you think it's
normal to waste time searching for and just believing in any old rubbish from anyone. I don't know if you incur monetary costs as well as personal ones. Clearly, going down the paranoid conspiracy route has to affect your ability to interact in a normal way with people. I wonder how much of your money you have wasted on purchasing woo-related stuff, or perhaps giving your time and/or money to people who are willing to be paid to feed you the lies you want to hear.
You don't recognise the threat to yourself because to recognise it you'd have to think critically about your beliefs and actions. It's a Catch 22. You're stuck. You continue choosing to be stuck.
How does it endanger me to reject the debunkers' assumption that all ufos are merely mistaken mundane objects like flocks of birds or the planet Venus?
We've been over that misconception of yours too many times to count. See what I mean about the unappreciated damage this has done to you? You seem literally incapable of holding certain thoughts in your head any more. Instead, you run away from what feels uncomfortable to you, from what doesn't sit well in your constructed fantasy world.
What's at stake for you here, that you should put so much energy and effort to prove ufos aren't real?
I haven't put much effort into that. Besides, there's no need for me to do that. UFOs will never be "craft" until somebody provides some convincing evidence that
at least one UFO is a "craft" (piloted by extraterrestrial time-travelling zombie servants of Great Cthulu, or whatever). The onus of proof is not on me to prove the negative. The onus is on
you - the guy making the extravagant, silly, unsupported claims - to come up with the goods. But, as we know, you don't even
care whether there's any proof.
I did put a little effort into examining
one case quite thoroughly, a while back. You might recall our discussion of the Portland County UFO case - the one where the cops chased the planet Venus. Nothing came of it as far as you were concerned, of course. You mostly ignored the multiple lines of evidence I showed you, and you doubled down on the woo, as usual. But I quite enjoyed my investigation. It did take some effort though, and I don't have a lot of free time. Certainly it would be a complete waste of my time to do that kind of thing in the hope that it might change
your mind about something. If I do it at all, it's only because something sparks my interest.
Your emotional and moralistic reaction to me and Qreeus is well nigh sanctimonious and is way in excess of what it should be.
As I said to Yazata, above, you need to understand what is and what is not a moral issue.
On an emotional level, when it comes to you, the emotions that I primarily experience are a mixture of pity and exasperation. Pity because you're so irrevocably stuck. Exasperation because I rarely come across people who go out of their way to actively avoid learning things, and you're apparently one of those people.
I understand that it hurts your feelings when I tell you blunt truths that you'd rather not hear. But
you don't have to put yourself through this. You have agency. You choose to be here rather than on a UFO-lovers' forum somewhere where lots of people will pat you on the back and congratulate you on your ability to dig up time-waster nuggets from youtube. (Although, for all I know, you spend time on those kinds of forums too, which means even
more of your time wasted on the nonsense. Mind you, I can understand if it makes you feel loved or part of community of like-minded people, because it must be tough living life with a whole gamut of kooky beliefs. Probably you have to keep your many bizarre articles of faith private from most people, lest they think you have screw loose.)
Why all the melodrama James?
It's mildly diverting from time to time. What's in it for you, pray tell?
What do you think you are saving us from?
Oh, I'm under no illusions on that score, I assure you. The first step in rehab is to acknowledge you have a problem. If you wanted to be saved - and were capable of being saved - by me, that probably would have already happened. On the other hand, people can change, and I'm an optimist.
If we don't agree with you, so what? Life goes on, and everybody is happy. Right?
Sure! But you could be happier. I could be happier. But you're stuck. That's where we're at. You do you.