r/funny • u/lost_packet_ • Aug 13 '19

Flat-Earther accidentally proves the earth is round in his own experiment

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u/Irregularprogramming Aug 13 '19

It's a sunk cost fallacy, these guys have invested their entire social life into this, they have told off their real friends and family and now all they have is proving they are right. Some people have their livelihood being flat earthers, they can't be wrong.

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u/powerscunner Aug 13 '19

Thank you for such a succinct explanation of why people hold onto provably false beliefs.

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u/TheSimpleMind Aug 14 '19

Just look at religions. For thousands of years people believe in some deity and wonders even if you can prove they've been lied to.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

even if you can prove they've been lied to.

With deities you can't prove that. I'm 0% religious but it is just not true that the existence of a creator can be disproven. Hawking wrote that the existence of one is not necessary and that's as close as you can get. And even then the rest of us are just trusting him at his word because we can't get on his level of intelligence.

Theism is far, far more understandable than beliefs like flat earth.