I've never asked Max about his beliefs, nor do I care. However, it is my belief that Max is more of an artist than anything else and it is his in his DNA to create or to see things that others cannot or will not see.
You will never see Max denigrating others or stalking others but you will see him making attempts to share his unique point of view with hopes of getting others to open their minds to look at those things to decide for themselves instead of accepting what has been taught. That is what art is to me...... just sayin.
To relate your story of Buzz Aldrin being stalked with Max is just not fair.
(BTW, JoeyA believes the earth is shaped like a cue ball, just a little larger; and I doubt Max will hold that against me..)
It takes all kinds of people to make the world go round.
A person can be a perfectly nice and humble and helpful person, and harbor insane ideas that are useless at best, and malignant at worst. Nice person and insane ideas are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
And I strongly believe in open discourse and challenging preconceived ideas and so forth... but what the flat earthers do is not that. Good, serious discourse is premised on rational thinking, openness to evidence, logical consistency, testable & falsifiable hypotheses, etc. etc. etc. Flat Earth nutbags do not engage in any of this. No more than the people who believe Obama is an alien reptile shapeshifter. There's no constructive of helpful discourse to be had with them. They don't help make the worst go round (lol).
But I believe you that Max is a great guy, it's just that it's not relevant to this issue IMHO.