Flat Earth: Who's it hurting? - Anybody at all?

[Exigent Circumcisions]

There's some talk about censoring Flat Earthers and I'm not entirely sure what the point would be. Where's the danger? I doubt any of them are working in aerospace or doing anything that would require them to understand what is, for most people, just an academic thing. It doesn't really effect my life one way or another on a day-to-day basis whether the Earth is flat or not; I'm not saying that there aren't numerous technologies that I rely on that only work because our astronomy is correct (GPS is an obvious one) but other than that, who cares?


I don't think I do.

Edit: Fucked up asking an intelligible question in the poll. Hope I fixed it.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

It's not dangerous, no. Just really funny, and possibly mildly annoying depending on the situation. If you really love science (and not in the I Fucking Love Science way) it's kind of like someone calling that pretty girl you like an ugly whore.

 

[Bassomatic]

It hurts no one really, people should have the right to be stupid, they sure are gonna do it even if we make it illegal.

With things like this and flat earth (iirc was proven to be a spoof of conspirtards) and all, I totally am against censoring them BUT, I understand why, it's a fun good joke a larp etc. You and your buddies shit post a bit about it and keep a straight face, watch people rage out.

This does get mentally ill people sucked in. Gang stalking would be a much more easy example or something that people would want to censor. We can't really help crazy people who get sucked into jokes/trolls/other crazy people.

No one said, to out law dogs after one told someone to shoot Ronnie Reagan. Did they? People get sucked down real and fake rabbit holes it's sad and we can't stop it. People who want to censor these sites and ideas really aren't against zealots just don't want them doing anything aside, their bidding.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Flat earthers are easily debunked retards, and shouldn't be censored any more than race realists or anti-vaxxers. I want those people out in the open, where they can be mocked and ridiculed and either bullied into being smarter, or into becoming a single target an hero, because they're clearly too dumb to be of value to the rest of society.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'd say it's hurting the people that believe it, but there are umpteenth sources readily available that can disprove that theory. As long as they're not forcing their beliefs on people or causing violence, then let them be.

 

[Violence Jack]

if they're censoring it then that means there's some threat of it being factual instead of farcical. If there were no threat then why would they care?

This does get mentally ill people sucked in. Gang stalking would be a much more easy example or something that people would want to censor. We can't really help crazy people who get sucked into jokes/trolls/other crazy people.

well this world is about cultivating fear and misinformation so having crazy people self own by thinking everyone is against them is essentially culling them without needing money or resources to do it. So there's no need to censor that one. Fear mongering is fine. But flat earth isn't i guess?

 

[Jebu Nagazi]

Every time i hear about theese flatearthers i get a splitting headace so YES they are hurting me -_- !

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Flat Earthers are such an insignificant and widely dismissed section of the population that I don't think they're even worth engaging. Trying to censor them would only give their beliefs an illusion of legitimacy, and would thus be completely counter-productive.

 

[Mightykiwi]

How can you not love flattards, they have brought me so much joy over the years. Besides, flattards are more a symptom rather than a cause, so going after them seems pointless to me.

 

[nagant 1895]

The less respect "The Academy" has in the eyes of the average person the more likely ideas like flat earth and vaccine=autism are to take root. The accredited and the technocrat both take a lot of damage from the other bullshit that comes out of universities these days and the concept of truth gets pretty dinged up by manipulated studies, skewed data, poorly phrased questions and hanging chads.

 

[Piss Clam]

It's like the moon hoaxers. It's not like you can shine a laser at the moon or anything.

So the flat eathers have to prove it is flat, and of course so far they haven't. That includes the chemtrail people who only need to get an airplane up in the sky and sample a "chemtrail". Should be easy to crowd source for the money, no?

I don't think they should be censored at all, because I'm adult enough to just skip past their bullshit.

China just bounced a laser off reflectors on the Moon placed by NASA's Apollo 15 mission

China has successfully used a 1.2 metre telescope laser ranging system to bounce light off an retroreflector placed on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission

gbtimes.com

 

[MediocreMilt]

Well, clearly they must be on to something. I mean, why would anybody go tell lies on the internet like that?

Even the UN is on board with it!

 

[Raw Meat]

Conspiracies shouldn't be censored, there's no harm in thinking the world is flat. Debunk, mock or just move on, no need for censorship.

The mentally ill and gullible Facebook moms will get sucked into any conspiracy, if it's not this it'll be something else, there's no stopping that and censorship won't prevent it.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

So I'm getting the impression that nobody here believes in a notion I've seen hinted at, basically goes like this; if we allow superstition or ignorance a foothold in our society, it will grow larger and larger until we're plunged back into a Dark Age.

I'm really hoping somebody shows up to make that argument.

Edit: @Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake was good enough to grace us with the counterpoint.

 

[RoofGook]

Dunning Kruger types who have a hard on for Christopher Hitchens are the only people who give a shit. They’re a bunch of pea brained dogmatic touchy tards that take no joy in anything. If you would rather have a conversation with Sham Harris or Richard Dawkins than Alex Jones or Emperor Norton you are in severe mental and spiritual poverty.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

So I'm getting the impression that nobody here believes in a notion I've seen hinted at, basically goes like this; if we allow superstition or ignorance a foothold in our society, it will grow larger and larger until we're plunged back into a Dark Age.

I'm really hoping somebody shows up to make that argument.

Weird argument, honestly, as it presupposes that superstition and ignorance are more attractive than the alternatives, which then gets into a matter of "why would that be the case?" and leads into a circular argument of People Are Dumb Because They're Superstitious Because They're Dumb Because etc.

 

[SilkGnut]

If I believe somebody is wrong they need to be censored.

I do not understand why this case would be different than any other.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Why censor what you can drag out into the street and mock? Censoring it seems to give it way more weight than it deserves.

 

[Violence Jack]

So I'm getting the impression that nobody here believes in a notion I've seen hinted at, basically goes like this; if we allow superstition or ignorance a foothold in our society, it will grow larger and larger until we're plunged back into a Dark Age.

I'm really hoping somebody shows up to make that argument.

I feel like we're in an overlit age where truth is slowly becoming relative to people. Every truth will be given the same weight, but nobody will truly be right. the more light you have the greater the shadow it casts etc.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I feel like we're in an overlit age where truth is slowly becoming relative to people. Every truth will be given the same weight, but nobody will truly be right.

There's an easy response to solipsism of that nature.

"No one Truth is supreme, all are Equal!"
"...Is that True?"

It's a glib and hilariously effective way to make a relativist's head spin.

Edit: It's my damned thread so I'm going to sperg on this because it's one of my gay little pleasures in life:

"Everything is just a matter of opinion!"
"That's just your opinion."

"We can't be sure of anything!"
"You sound pretty sure of that."

"All viewpoints are valid!"
"Doesn't look that way from over here."

etc., etc.
I'm a petty cunt sometimes.