• Iunnrais@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think your wife’s case was actually significantly different from “flat earthers”, as a community. There’s ignorance, which can be corrected with knowledge and information and reasoning, and there’s willful defiance, which cannot. The very fact that she was freaked out and had a crisis, which enabled facts to enter her head, demonstrates that.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, the true flatearthers deny what they are hearing and dig in deeper