If I were to make a sphere and cut between a vertex near the sphere's "north" and a vertex near the sphere's "east," the cut becomes curved in a way reminiscent of the Coriolis effect. I just want the knife tool too cut through the edges between them in a straight line. In other words, I want it where knife tool cuts between two vertices always gives the same line cut (the shortest and most direct path possible) regardless of my viewer.
Problem:
I've had people tell me this is a result of having the view in perspective mode, which it clearly is not. Orthographic views also have this problem.