You are not required to listen to anything anyone says, but if your goal is to get through to a flat earther/creationist/etc, it helps to understand their menta

You are not required to listen to anything anyone says, but if your goal is to get through to a flat earther/creationist/etc, it helps to understand their mental framework, or you'll just end up wasting time talking past each other. An interesting exercise I did way back in the day for fun was to try to debate some of those topics using only arguments within _their_ mental framework (e.g. if X pro-flat-earth argument is true, then why does the Bible contradictorily says Y). If anything, I ended up getting something out of it, as doing my own research to try to formulate these arguments taught me about topics I wasn't nearly as familiar w/ (e.g. history of religious documents)