Ok ok. Apparently, there's a massive conspiracy in telling the world lies of there being a spherical earth. Even though you can stick the word conspiracy on anything and everything that occurs in everyday life and come up with made up facts and fool a few of your friends and family for some shits and giggles; you cannot fool a population of 6 billion+ people with one single conspiracy. Instead of taking a scientific stance, I'm going to take a more logical approach; common sense if you will.
Firstly I would like to mention one argument someone makes against one who does not believe a conspiracy exists or wonders who is behind it. The answer is always "the government". In all likely-hood, it always seems like the government is a very easy target to blame for everything. I mean come on, at the end of the day, it's them who determines how good of a life we live. So why the hell not blame a powerful institution that, at some degree, controls our lives? We can also blame them for not reaching a mystical "ice wall"! Which brings me to my second point.
An ice wall that circles the entire earth and keeps everything in side, just like a big bowl of soup, has never been reached to in the 21 century. Even though there's a plethora of technology and plenty of ways to travel the earth, there hasn't been anyone able to get solid evidence of an ice wall. Why? "LOL TEH GOVERNMENT SHOT THEM DOWN TO THA GROUND!" What government is doing this? What is there to hide? Why spend so much money to tell the people of earth that the planet they live on is a sphere? What is the motive of "the government"? In order to do something, you need an end result. I don't see what the government is winning here by telling us we live on a sphere, what are they gaining? What's in it for them? Why try to fool a world population of 6 billion people?
One question I have asked above annoys me the most. The lack of common sense is really sad. According to a FET believer, the government and NASA are working together to fool the population of earth. Where's the plural form of government? If it's a typo, (If not, and if you actually believe the United States government is the only one in on this, then that's just sad) why would the governments of 195 different countries, of different likes and dislikes, actually work together on this one thing and fool, let me say again, 6 billion people?
One would argue; its NASA. (Even though proof of a spherical can be made without going into space) The United States is one of the few countries that can actually send something high into the sky. Last time I checked, China is in space. They have satellites circling the moon and earth! Notice how after this happened, President Obama spoke publicly on how he wants the United States to get back in space? The competition in space is evident! So why believe we've never been? The SEB (Spherical Earth Believers) don't blindly follow, we see fact and reasoning, not strong denial! It's common sense that drives us to believe a spherical earth, not a blind theory!
You can come up with all of the most scientific "proofs" to try and convince yourself the earth is flat. Whatever it is FETists argue with: Bendy Light, It's magic that a sphere can be made without a "seeable" force, John Davis, James McIntyre or whatever. But there is NO solid proof, not a shred of it, on this conspiracy, the one excuse used by everyone who believes a flat earth. And don't bother saying financial gain, please, the lack of common sense in that is astounding. (If there was a huge financial gain from this conspiracy, why is the world's economy struggling? Or is that another conspiracy, oh goodness.)
"Denial is a powerful thing. You can tell someone that their hair is on fire and they wouldn't believe you."