I don't know if Kurt Cobain was the first to use the expression, but its him I think of when I hear the line. Anyways, it does make sense. You might be considered paranoid because you are suspicious of EVERYONE (or everyone in a certain class such as journalists in the case of Kurt). The fact that some people may in fact be gunning for you justifies your paranoia to some degree, but your paranoia makes it impossible for you to distinguish the real threats from the false.
I suppose you could argue a grey area where you are right to be mistrustful, as they really are after you, but you've taken it to such an obsessive level it becomes paranoia, but you've kind of stretched the meaning of the saying there. Colloquially, I would say it means 'just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean I'm not right,' which is categorically false. You're either paranoid or you're right; you can't be both. Of course, you could argue I'm stretching the meaning and it's actually supposed to be 'just because I'm *acting* paranoid, doesn't mean I'm not right,' but then we'd be here all damn day.
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I don't know if Kurt Cobain was the first to use the expression, but its him I think of when I hear the line. Anyways, it does make sense. You might be considered paranoid because you are suspicious of EVERYONE (or everyone in a certain class such as journalists in the case of Kurt). The fact that some people may in fact be gunning for you justifies your paranoia to some degree, but your paranoia makes it impossible for you to distinguish the real threats from the false.
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