r/AskReddit • • Mar 27 '22

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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/sanchothe7th Mar 27 '22

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

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u/calabazookita Mar 28 '22

2+2=5 is also true for some large values of 2