anti-non-intentionality bias

Here’s a thing that’s bothering me. I think there is a common, hidden axiom in these beliefs:

• Global warming is a hoax
• The pandemic is a hoax
• Covid-19 was made in a lab
• Global warming may be real, but it’s just a “natural” cycle

These two issues have spawned various (untrue) theories, but what is common across many theories is an assumption if something important/impactful happens, it must have been intended.

“Global warming is a hoax” asserts that there is no actual crisis, but that there are people who want to convince others to change their behavior, so they posit global warming, just for the sake of getting people to change. The logic is that since things cannot happen unless intended (and nobody intended to cause global warming), therefore it must be fake.

“The pandemic is a hoax” asserts that there is no actual pandemic, and this is all just an exercise of the government trying to assert control over the population (take away our freedoms). A similar line of logic as the last item applies here, too. Since things cannot happen unless intended, it’s impossible that a new/unseen virus just entered the population with devastating effects.

“Covid-19 was made in a lab”. Similar, again. If there really is a pandemic, and there really is a virus, it must have been done on purpose, therefore it came from a lab.