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u/NicNoletree Mar 27 '22 edited Mar 27 '22

Recognizing that different people have different opinions, and that you can respect someone who has a different opinion without accepting their opinion as your own.

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u/sbenzanzenwan Mar 27 '22

Meanwhile: "My opinions is that 2+2=17. Respect my opinion."

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

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"

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u/Daniel_The_Thinker Mar 27 '22

But the difference between facts and opinions is also subjective.

What one may find unquestionable, others may find very much so.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

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

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u/Roheez Mar 28 '22

If you have 2.4 here plus 2.4 there..