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CMV: There is not a substantial amount of flat-earthers. Genuine believers are practically nonexistent.

I’m not here to debate whether the earth is flat, I’m saying that practically no one believes it is. I’m defining substantial amount as being any amount of people that is indicative of our culture or worth worrying about. It’s hard to put a number on though. Basically I believe no one is raising their kids to believe in a flat earth as some popularly circulated facebook posts claim, that no one is doing serious research, that there are no legitimate organizations not flooded 95%+ with trolls, and that “some people even think the earth is flat” is not a legitimate example of people’s modern gullibility. 



Anyone who seriously considers a flat earth is either 13, clinically delusional, living without education, flexing their debate skills for the sake of debate, or 90% joking 10% playing devil’s advocate. 99.999% of flat earth memes are trolls. Some are elaborate, but trolls nonetheless. The only “I can’t believe they think that” here is @ the people who believe the crazy posts. I actually have seen people worry this marks a new dark age. 



People believe crazy things all the time, yes, but those things usually have legitimate benefit to them. Believing the earth is 10,000 years old discredits evolution, shames the “atheist academics”, upholds biblical literalism, ect. Believing one race/sex is biologically superior to another upholds a hierarchy. Believing vaccines are dangerous gives an illusion of control over the genetic lottery. 



You can believe practically anything and still think the earth is a sphere.
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I think you need to add a small percentage are those that are desparate. One flat-earther put it best, "If the earth isn't flat, it means it isn't special, and our existence is a fluke and essentially meaningless."

That small section just denies the truth because a round earth makes them feel incredibly small.