My own questioning tends to follow the paths of why and exploring the basic motivations of people playing games with the masses. What do they care about? What do they want?

I have always struggled with governments/powerful people "wanting to kill us all" because "us all" the the fuel that makes their lives possible in the first place. So "killing us all" is akin to being on an airplane and throwing a handful of ball bearings into the engines, just for shits and grins to see what will happen. What will happen is that the plane will crash and everybody DIES, and now you have no means to GO anywhere... they didn't get to being where they are by being THAT stupid, so it has to be something else.

Follow the money always seems to be the wisest choice. Who's going to profit from a mass extinction, aside from undertakers and incineration plants?