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 A conspiracy is people working together in secret to commit crimes.

Secrecy and criminality are subjective, only collaboration is objective. 

So you can’t get everyone to agree on something being a secret or a crime, and though you can probably get everyone to agree on something being collaboration, collaboration is not itself a bad thing. 

So you can never objectively label something a conspiracy. It’s impossible. 

But you also cannot objectively say that every collaboration isn’t a conspiracy. 

So… everything *could* be a conspiracy… 🧐