I'm an open person but in the end it's about arguments. I haven't encountered any convincing any convincing arguments for flat earth, or anything that makes me want to research it further, and your post doesn't contain any either. I'm giving an argument for the Earth being round so that the discussion can begin somewhere.
If the Earth is a flat plane, then space is Euclidian and going in a straight line will never bring you where you started. If going in a straight line away from Japan can somehow make me end up in Japan (after crossing the ocean), then the plane has to be curved. The same is true if what appears to be a straight line is actually a path along a circle. There is no plane that's both circular and flat, that's a contradiction. We can disagree about what the map should look like, that's another matter, but the above phenomenon unto itself shows there has to be some curvature, hence the Earth isn't flat.
You can cross the Pacific ocean, that shows that the Earth is round.
I'm an open person but in the end it's about arguments. I haven't encountered any convincing any convincing arguments for flat earth, or anything that makes me want to research it further, and your post doesn't contain any either. I'm giving an argument for the Earth being round so that the discussion can begin somewhere.
If the Earth is a flat plane, then space is Euclidian and going in a straight line will never bring you where you started. If going in a straight line away from Japan can somehow make me end up in Japan (after crossing the ocean), then the plane has to be curved. The same is true if what appears to be a straight line is actually a path along a circle. There is no plane that's both circular and flat, that's a contradiction. We can disagree about what the map should look like, that's another matter, but the above phenomenon unto itself shows there has to be some curvature, hence the Earth isn't flat.