Rigorous thinker wrote:
Or are people entitled to believe only what they can argue for? Would the world be a better place if people were entitled only to hold opinions that can be properly backed up and defended? Too often beliefs that should be abandoned for lack of defensibility are held on to because people feel entitled to think whatever they like.
Backed up by what, more opinions, words; defended by what, illusions?
An opinion should be properly analyzed and constructed, researched, weighed up and deliberated on. A person should be trained to recognize when an opinion has become indefensible and then abandon it as unfounded and illegitimate, or hold it as a static belief until such a time as it can be put to a morenrigorous test.
Great lib in late 1700's said "Bans, new laws and more Bans." Sound like today. Up your butt baby, you will do as we say or bans laws and new bans. New laws new bans and more bans. Got to get out and get my knock out game tally for this week. Its all matter of time baby, keep voting just as you all do.
genuine random a hole wrote:
my opinion wrote:You are not entitled to state your opinion if doing so infringes on the rights of others.
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Can you provide an example of how stating an opinion could infringe on the right of another?
(Please don't try the "had an opinion there was a fire and expressed it in a crowded theatre" argument.)
Expressing opinions can obviously cause harm to others. The law recognises this in a variety of ways - for example defamation.
This topic is perhaps the stupidest topic ever introduced on these boards.
Everyone HAS their own opinion. "Entitled" has nothing to do with it.
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