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RE: @fulltimegeek (flat-earth moron), how do you explain this??

Personally not a flat earth type but to all those who actually know nothing (about this topic) but stand behind a.... I trust the experts.... get a god damn life. Some people have opinions and beliefs that differ from your and or conventional perspectives. To gang up and act self righteous says more about your own intelligence than it does about the person you are attacking.

Just saying; Earth ain't flat but people are welcome to believe what ever they want without being harassed or ridiculed.

I get the context of a flame war but this back and forth between these two enemies might leave those other flat Earthers feeling attacked or excluded from steemit community. This is a big platform with enough room for all opinions.

Just my two cents...

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This is true but on the flip side, saying 'people are welcome to believe what they want' is a dangerous attitude to have. Anti-vaxxers are welcome to believe what they want and this leads to death. People who believe in Traditional Chinese medicine or other alternative medicines often choose it over real treatment, and die. The more this spreads, the deadlier things become.

Flat earth is just a branch on the conspiracy tree that spreads the fllame of distrust in science and facts. The more it spreads, the more the sentiment of distrust spreads with it and we end up not only with people taking wrong medicine, but a generally misinformed society empowered by a growing collective behind them.

Does attacking allow them to grow even more via alienation? It's possible, but i'd wager simply letting everyone feel welcome to their beliefs does far worse.

Take the NRA for example. Regardless of your opinions on gun rights, the reason the NRA are eso successful is because they keep pushing their agenda day in, day out, around the clock all year, growing daily. Opponents of the NRA are only typically active when one of the thousands of mass shootings happen to go viral, then you get maybe a week or two of people trying to fight back against the NRA before turning back to their dating apps or whatever, allowing the NRA to keep growing.

The same applies here, I'd say

Wow. I love you. Seriously :-) but Id have thrown in a few 'religious people are welcome to believe in what they want' and this can most definitely lead to death.

It's like watching neil degrasse tyson argue with math powerland