As ridiculous as FE seems, prima facie, until it's proven false, I keep my mind open to plausible explanations for why:
A) the moon landings were all fake and we've never "been back"
B) there are no actual photos of the entire earth from space (unless you believe the sizes of the continents are changing by 30-60% every decade or so)
C) the only people on earth that we give billions of dollars to, to go to space, are faking any, let alone much (or all) of the footage, using green screens, parabolic "zero gravity" flights, actual hair spray to make their hair stand up, underwater studios (unless you believe in air bubbles in space)
You might say "but these items have better explanations than FE". Well let's hear those theories also. Let's not shoot down those who are proposing an outlandish, yet mostly comprehensive, theory, one that explains these anomalies as well as a plethora of others, like how did they use radio frequencies that don't even purportedly bounce off the ionosphere to communicate hundreds of miles during WWII, how can the horizon be seen above an item whose entirety should be hidden behind it, why is Antarctica, aside from a tiny portion, entirely off limits to most civilians, how was Felix Baumgartner able to slowly float up to nearly 30 miles without drifting a thousand or more miles because of the earth's rotation, etc.
Suggestions that these things are not even worthy of discussion, on a forum dedicated to conspiracy theories, have to be disingenuous.
Original Research
Let's not also forget that FE researchers are literally the only conspiracy theorists doing original research. These people will buy lasers that cost thousands of dollars, cameras, etc., and go to some large body of water (large lakes, bays, etc.) where they can test their hypothesis with an actual experiment. Everything else I see on here is pure speculation, or videos of interviews involving various professionals with dubious backstories (Malone, etc.).
Does it Matter
Pertaining the "would it even matter" argument, you honestly don't need a lukewarm IQ to imagine how much it would matter, if FE was real.
Principles
Most of us are here because we couldn't speak freely elsewhere, because "hate has no place on our platform" type communist bullshit. Now we're going to make the same kind of rules, especially banning arbitrary content that is desired by a clear majority, on a platform with already-existing mechanisms for getting rid of low quality postd (downvoting, hiding)? If FE posts are banned, this place is no better than TGA, and don't even pretend to be pro constitution when you can't even stand up for free speech about a conspiracy theory in a conspiracy theory forum.
I'm out of here, for good, if FE is banned. Aside from spam, illegal, doxxing, banning has no place on our platform.
If you don’t understand that FE is a stand in for honing critical thinking skills, then you don’t.
People today possess so little empirical knowledge. I find that its a vital tool in learning to discern what is ‘known’ from what YOU know, and why that matters.
I laugh whenever I see hostility toward the idea - People shouting at the internet, imploring others to accept ‘the facts’ at face value; Unless you’ve been to space, please just fuck off and shut up. You’re as bad as anyone on Reddit.
Let people learn and grow. Discussion is healthy. Suppressing thought is not.
Because it objectively isn’t.
Hence flat earth spam.
“Unless you’ve eaten shit yourself, you cannot say that shit tastes bad!”
This is how mentally defective you actually are. This is what you actually believe.
Go fuck yourself with a rake, communist. Your rhetoric will never be accepted here.
Flat earthers do not discuss. They spam paid talking points every single day.
Thanks for admitting you support banning flat earth, which is suppression of thought.
You need a good woman to set you straight!
Die immediately. The Earth is not flat. You don’t have an argument. You have nothing to add here, federal agent.
Have you read Leo Buscaglia?