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This photo could be easily faked. I don't believe the Earth is flat, but I also don't think everybody on the planet should be 100% on one side of a discussion. Even if flat-earthers are kinda dumb, I think it's worse to force everyone into intellectual submission just because you're "right".

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>I think it's worse to force everyone into intellectual submission just because you're "right".

I think it's worse to consider the acceptance of reality as being "forced into intellectual submission" and to use scare quotes around "right."

There are discussions that everyone on the planet should be 100% on one side of and this is one of them. It is literally just wasting everyone's time to entertain the premise that opinions to the contrary hold any value.

Even if clearly one side is correct without any doubt whatsoever, beyond any question? Such as 2+2=4 -- we should accept a situation where some people insist this is not true? It seems irrational.

Arithmetic is only true axiomatically, which is a fancy way of saying that 2+2=4 is merely an opinion.

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