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I used to see it that way. Now I remind myself that for nearly all of us, there are certain truths never to be acknowledged. Such encounters are a rate opport

I used to see it that way. Now I remind myself that for nearly all of us, there are certain truths never to be acknowledged. Such encounters are a rate opportunity to gain first-hand insight on someone else's particular set of unbearable truths. Maybe start with "What whole-Earth map would you recommend?"

munk-a 7y ago
Part of this is totally legitimate, we all have limited knowledge and unfortunately in America being stubborn and an ability to BS is pretty much taught in schools... but there is a range of people here. At one extreme there are people, who, when their misconceptions are challenged, can admit they were wrong and have no hesitancy to voice their ignorance on a subject - at the other extreme are people who never want to be wrong and go to lengths to dismiss anything they observe that would invalidate their beliefs. Then we have the trouble causers that delight in the ignorance of others and reinforce misconceptions either out of pure joy or to monetize those misconceptions - either way just being terrible trolls. I feel like the earth being round is such a generally accepted fact that anyone still clinging to flat-eartherism is either a troll or quite close to the extreme of that spectrum and I don't think it's worth my time to deal with those people - and I get that, it's sort of a mean stance to take but... I don't know, there's enough stuff I have to do in life - I'd rather not devote the effort into trying to convince someone who might just be trolling for the hell of it.