Flat Earthers Are Whining About How Their Friends Think They're Idiots

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https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/11/18/flat-earthers-are-whining-about-how-their-friends-think-theyre-idiots/

Flat Earthers Are Whining About How Their Friends Think They’re Idiots
By Hemant Mehta, November 18, 2019

In a lengthy CNN feature on the spread of the Flat Earth community — cheekily titled “The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe” — a couple of people attending a recent conference in Dallas, Texas whine about how they’ve lost friends over their lunacy.

“I don’t want to be a flat Earther,” David Weiss says, his voice weary as he reflects on his personal awakening. “Would you wake up in the morning and want everyone to think you’re an idiot?”
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“This (conference) is an outlet for a lot of people that might otherwise get ostracized by friends and family and co-workers. When they come here, they know it’s absolutely a safe space,” [conspiracy theorist Mark] Sargent says of this week’s event.
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For Davidson, the next stage is to debate leading members of the scientific community, but “they just laugh at us and say, ‘you guys are dumb.'”

That’s because these guys are dumb.

At least they admit they live in a (flat) bubble. Just because they’re ostracized doesn’t mean their views deserve any respect. In this case, their friends are right to distance themselves. Why surround yourself with people unable to accept even the most basic of realities?