I have been basically coming to the same conclusion as you. Another reason for keeping debunking this was for me the belief that consensus is important. That w

I have been basically coming to the same conclusion as you. Another reason for keeping debunking this was for me the belief that consensus is important. That we as a society need to be able to arrive the correct consensus on various issues, and otherwise big tragedies can happen. That any single human can be wrong about things, that's not a problem, but there need to be consensus mechanisms that makes sure that dangerous or wrong beliefs are not propagated far enough, - then it would become dangerous. And so this belief pushed me into still debunking these theories. Because yes, it might be true that it is a human-argument instead of a technical argument, but it was still in my best interest to contribute to a correct consensus of the whole system, and so I still needed to convince them, maybe now using the arguments that appealed to their human/spiritual side instead of the technical side. Because it was still up to me, as a member of the society to uphold the consensus. But ultimately I have arrived at the same outlook as you have, and I've done through realizing that none of the flat earth people matter for the global consensus. If you look around at which people believe in flat earth, they are never important, they are never policy makers, they are never influential, they are rarely even productive members of society (especially hardcore ones). If anything, they make the perfect marketing for the inadequacy of their beliefs by showing their stance in the society. This is how consensus mechanism works in this area: not by convincing these marginal(influentially speaking) people of the correct view, but by keeping them marginal, - and the viewpoint itself, by association. I think that every time there is a person who arrives at an influential position, by that time they do it they have already experienced so much growth and so much work on themselves (because that is demanded of them to succeed in the competence hierarchy that is the essence of the western society), that they don't ever fall into fallacies like flat earth because they don't have a reason to feel extra special by harboring controversial beliefs.