Read some Camus and meditate on relativity’s reach; can’t ever know the abstract signals others feel. We’re not made of philosophy but mush and go propagating electricity.
Is it temporary if they stick around or are they role-playing?
You can’t ever actually know. Just argue rhetorical positions in symbolic logic. Not the same as being anyone else.
There’s no “flaw” as there’s no “one true symbolic rhetorical argument” to rule them all. Suggesting there’s a flaw implies there is.