Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outside Barstow

Re:Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outsid... by lolc on Monday February 24, 2020 @07:59PM (#22410017)

Interesting. That would make him much worse in my book. Now should I remember him as an irresponsible fraud or a mistaken fool?

It is one thing to be so misinformed as to believe a flat earth has any plausibility. It is another to reinforce people in this mistaken belief to take advantage of them!

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Re:Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outsid... by GaryNumanVevo on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:03PM (#22410580)

I mean, he grifted a bunch of flat earther's into funding his hobby. That's a win in my book

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Re:Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outsid... by lolc on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:19AM (#22412320)

That's because you think flat-earthers "deserve" being cheated because they're stupid. I wonder how you'd react to cons that exploit your own ignorance.

In my ethics it is fraud to keep people in a mistaken belief to profit from it. By adopting their beliefs as his own, he crossed into that zone. If he'd just announced that he'll check curvature for them, that would have been alright.

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Re:Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outsid... by GaryNumanVevo on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:42PM (#22419180)

Flat Earther's are more convicted than stupid. They're more than welcome to give money to anyone they please.

> In my ethics it is fraud to keep people in a mistaken belief to profit from it.

See: all of organized religion.

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Re:Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes killed in rocket crash outsid... by lolc on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:24AM (#22421597)

It's not fraud if you believe it yourself. Sure there are frauds in organized religion, but that doesn't make the religions as a whole a fraud.

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