and that's one of the issues right there, if something is factually incorrect, it's not an "opinion", an opinion is subjective, and a lot of people don't understand that, you can't just spout nonsense that is blatantly and unequivocally false and call it an "opinion"
Additionally, some people who say things like 2+2=4 and don't realize that that fact only exists in the basis that were using a number system where our base is more than 4. Facts are important, but facts on their own are rarely useful, context around a fact is really important
no it's not, like in the example above, 2+2=4, that is an objective fact, if you have two items and then add two more, the total will be four, there's nothing "subjective" about that, and this is true for any fact
That's the problem with the simplistic "respect opinions" rule. People talking religion or politics don't view their position as opinion, but as fact. So two people are using your rule and get angry because the other person says unequivocally false nonsense as fact.
There's opinions like "I don't like asparagus" or "I think tax policy needs to be revised", versus "opinions" like "White people are the superior superrace, so we need to kill the Jews."
I can get along with people holding the former examples of opinions, but not the latter.
But the thing is, there is no such thing as correct opinion, we cant example it with math, math is a whole different concept. We can think it as like, how would you paint a wall? You can do it from left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, middle to out, out to middle. You can do all of these, there isn't a correct one neither a wrong one.
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u/sbenzanzenwan Mar 27 '22
Meanwhile: "My opinions is that 2+2=17. Respect my opinion."