Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?

[EgoDeath]

[fredd bear]

[EgoDeath]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Address their points, if you wish, but don't debate with them. Talk about them, not to them.

[Yonadav]

There is a school of thought that says we should engage with Flat-Earthers in order to bring these conversations out into the open and not push FEers to the "fringes" of society, so to sepak.

There is another idea that these people are holding fixed beliefs that will never change in the fact of evidence or reason.

After having very few, but intense, interactions ith flat-earthers, I've ultimately decided that these conversations are not worth having. I think that some people are prone to conspiracy and will shout conspiracy no matter what happens, where it happens or who is involved. I think having some sort of ominous group to blame for the bad things that happen in the world gives some people a strange sense of comfort.

What do you guys think and why?

I have yet to meet a serious flat earther. They're pranksters.  We had one post here a couple of weeks ago, and he was immediately banned for posting a link to his book. When I checked out his book, I found what I always find. The book was a prank and didn't pretend to be anything but a prank. It was a picture book, with very few words, and the words were humorous. "Do you have a stupid friend who thinks that the world is a spinning globe? Then ask your stupid friend why water doesn't fly off of the face of the earth because of centrifugal force!" And then it shows a humorous picture of a spinning wet ball with water flying off of it.

Our local retards took the guy seriously-- and that's the real joke. Tell people that the earth is flat, and people will immediately tell you how stupid they are. It actually is pretty funny.

[The Grand Nudger]

The modern flat earth community is sincere.  It's just that they're generally religious conspiracy theorists...perfect POE material.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The modern flat earth community is sincere.  It's just that they're generally religious conspiracy theorists...perfect POE material.

Yep. To claim it is an "internet sensation" ignores the reality that this has been a thing for longer than the 'net existed.

[Yonadav]

In every single discussion that I have been in about flat earthers, the people who took them seriously constantly exhibited stupidity. Flat earthers are all about how people with borrowed knowledge have delusions of sophistication. They are the caveman who has been given a stainless steel knife. Almost immediately, that caveman will start having delusions of sophistication because he will imagine that other cavemen don't understand metal the way that he does.

[The Grand Nudger]

Flat earthers are all about a flat earth, Yon.

[Yonadav]

Flat earthers are all about a flat earth, Yon.

Yeah, and that humorously worded book with the funny pictures was totally serious, dude.