Re:Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious?
by krapp on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:37AM
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>How does someone being a hollow earther hurt you? How does your sister believing in crystals impact you?
It doesn't hurt me, but those beliefs hurt society.
People have died of otherwise curable or treatable disease because they trusted homeopathy or religion over science. Flat earthers might have laudable goals in encouraging people to question their assumptions about the validity of science, but they do so by discrediting science altogether, and encouraging others to do the same.
If you can accept that "the establishment" has hidden the fact that the earth is flat since the dawn of time, then it's easier to believe things like "vaccines are really population control" or "Jews did 9/11".
>People should be kinder to each other and should jump down peoples throat a bit less, that stuff is what makes the world fun.
Putting up with self-delusion because it makes the world more fun isn't kindness.
It doesn't hurt me, but those beliefs hurt society.
People have died of otherwise curable or treatable disease because they trusted homeopathy or religion over science. Flat earthers might have laudable goals in encouraging people to question their assumptions about the validity of science, but they do so by discrediting science altogether, and encouraging others to do the same.
If you can accept that "the establishment" has hidden the fact that the earth is flat since the dawn of time, then it's easier to believe things like "vaccines are really population control" or "Jews did 9/11".
>People should be kinder to each other and should jump down peoples throat a bit less, that stuff is what makes the world fun.
Putting up with self-delusion because it makes the world more fun isn't kindness.