No, I'm just saying it's narrowminded to say that the World is Flat. Period. You have to consider other possibilities, like it is round. It's narrowminded to dismiss the idea of Evolution before considering its plausibility. Vice versa, it's narrowminded to dismiss the idea of Creationism without learning more about it and making a decision.
Does fanfiction butcher the author's work? maybe. That's debatable. In this case, it's not wholesale because this work isn't being sold. It's being distributed freely. I don't know anything about the legality of these things so as of now, I assume what you say about it is correct.
I guess we have different views
. Personally, I believe in moral relativism because what's to say that values today are the same in a thousand years? People used to believe that slavery was good. People used to believe the world was flat or that the sun revolved around us. People also used to believe in Zeus or Thor. I feel that the only reason why people think things are "Right" or "Wrong" are partly because of the current cultural climate.
Anyway, the whole point of this post was to just point out an interesting approach to something that's established.