Sentient Pizza, I know what you mean.
The notion that you question the facts which are presented to you by others is excellent. FET, if nothing else, is a supreme metaphor for this. Why believe things because you're told that others do, or that, if you don't, you're in a minority and are thus automatically wrong? Clever people ask questions.
The trouble with such enlightened, questioning thinking is that quite often you'll find out that the things you've been told are correct. However the very fact that you've taken the trouble to question them and demand evidence and proof, means that there's no dishonour in finding out that, yes, the things you've been told are correct. You deserve a big handshake or hug for not accepting them and having to have theie proponents explain them.
However, FEers, however much they espouse this think-for-yourself attitude, are hobbled by the fact that they aren't allowed to give an inch on FET. They are bound to oppose anything which might indicate the world isn't flat. Suddenly such ideas of free-thought and the questioning of evidence flees them, as they have to automatically gainsay the points made which might point to a roundy element to the planet.
I adore so much of the elegance of thought which goes into the rebuttal of RE theory that when such blunt idiocies as moon shrimp, anti-moons, NASA conspiracies and so on rear their stupid heads it's like watching an artist use his childish fist to squash black paint over a work of delicately constructed genius. Ditto ad hominem attacks which, I have to say, FEers undertake far less, to their eternal credit.
But talking in some embarrassing faux-Regency manner like the OP (and occasionally, those in the Believers' area) does even more harm. Some of you FE folk are CLEVER. That's what makes this site worth revisiting.