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

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Well? IS IT?

  • Yes.

  • No.

  • Not sure.

  • REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.


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Well, I think you're wrong so why don't YOU shut up?!‽


I don't think @nagant 1895 got the joke.
It is one of those comments that are only worth making because they can be interpreted as genuine. I get a lot of "dumb" marks from people who I am confident agree with me.

Poe's Law is vital to remember these days when parodies often fall short of the circumstances they are mocking. It could also be that I am not nearly as witty as I imagine, but accepting that I could be flawed is not a step I am comfortable making.
 
The whole outrage over flat earthers is so over-exaggerated. They’ve been around for decades, but apparently the normal people who don’t get out much just figured out they exist. Unfortunately, they make a good rage scapegoat because they’re so far out of the accepted norm that nobody will try to defend them, so everyone can panic about them without any real resistance.

But I have to agree with @Lemmingwise, censoring these guys is just going to make it easier to censor others later.
 
Don’t know why some people exaggerate the amount of flat earthers there are. Yes, few hundred people is a lot. Doesn’t mean they’re a legitimate movement that’s trying to dismantle society. NASAspergs really sperg out when they’re precious space programme gets criticized and they blame absolutely everyone for NASA’s own shortcomings.

I get how cool the Space Shuttle or the SpaceX Falcon Heavy is, that doesn’t give you the right to constantly shit on Flat Earthers.
 
I get how cool the Space Shuttle or the SpaceX Falcon Heavy is, that doesn’t give you the right to constantly shit on Flat Earthers.

You're right. What gives me the right to constantly shit on Flat Earthers, personally, is the fact that there's no law against making fun of people who picked one of the dumbest imaginable controversy-hills to die on.
 
I'm in the belief that nothing should be censored. If you want to kill an idea mock it. If you fucking ban any discussion of a certain topic you'll create a whole group of people who feel like the underdog and a vast conspiracy is keeping them down, fortifying their lunacy
 
The only real harm that could come from believing in the Flat Earth conspiracy is it could open one up to believing in other, more dangerous conspiracy theories. If The Man is lying to you about the very shape of the Earth, what else might they be lying about? Vaccines being safe? HIV/AIDS being real? Industrial bleach enemas not being a cure for autism?

But conspiracy theories should be left in the open where they can be contested and mocked. Censoring them and pretending they don't exists doesn't make them go away. It just prevents onlookers from understanding how stupid the conspiracy theorists are and makes believers latch on that much harder. If anything, it'll lead to more people believing the conspiracy.
 
I'm honestly surprised Flat Earth has as much traction as it does because it's so... inconsequential and impersonal. It doesn't have much of a hook. Antivax has a HUGE fear and purity hook. HAARP is just so cool that you want it to be true. Flat Earth is a big fat so-what.
 
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Where is your God now Roundfags?
 
Really, it depends on what you mean by "censorship". When most FE'ers use the word, what it ends up meaning is "I got kicked out of a science facebook group because I called them all globetard sheeple, THE MAN is censoring me!"
 
The closest thing to "harm" I can think of with Flat Earthers is the idea of crank magnetism: a Flat Earther is very rarely just a Flat Earther. They often believe in all manner of conspiracies that are just as ridiculous and end up taking over their entire worldview. And we see exactly the same dynamics with many SJWS; it might start off as a legitimate grievance or focussing on one cause that the SJWs hover around, but soon they get pulled into a vortex.

That being said, only an idiot could seriously propose that the solution is censorship. Firstly, part of the whole pull of conspiracy theories is that the Establishment is covering this up. If governments or the modern East India Companies of Big Tech (at least it's not the government!) decide to censor it, the harm is twofold: firstly, the conspiracists have literal evidence that the Establishment is trying to shut them down. Secondly, it will - no doubt about it - lead further people down the rabbit hole; just as people can fall off the edge into SJW nonsense when on the edge of the hole (BLM protests spring to mind as recruiting sergeants), people can - while defending a conspiracist's undoubted right to speak - end up looking through the material; thinking some of it makes sense; and going on from there.

Moreover, the real harm comes from the censorship itself that will be a breeding ground for future conspiracy theorists to emerge out of the woodwork, and much more powerfully in an intellectually-stunted society; as Christopher Hitchens said, we always have to ask ourselves the question: "how do I know what I think I know, except that I've always been taught it and never heard anything else?" If we can't answer that question it should concern us.
 
yes. It hurts earth-chan.
jokes aside. they shouldn't be censored it's better to mock them
 
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