Taking 2 fingers and adding 2 more fingers does not make 5 fingers. There's only going to be 4 fingers there no matter how you go about counting them. You can imagine a single object is actually 2 objects but in reality it's still only a single object.

Sure you could probably start counting everything at 0 and use your own logic for everything and recreate your own systems for doing things but I fail to see how this would be beneficial at all because one object is not 2 objects or 0 objects, it's one.

I think saying it's the biggest conspiracy theory of all time is a little much. I think maybe you're just counting your thumb as a finger.