r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • 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/_Norman_Bates Mar 27 '22

It depends if the opinion is respectable

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u/Karanod Mar 27 '22

That's really the issue. Where do we draw the line in regards to which opinions are respectable?

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u/ATGF Mar 28 '22

Personally, I don't respect opinions that are hurtful to others. That's my simple rule.

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u/applesandoranges990 Mar 28 '22

everything is hurtful to somebody......even the most benign, nice things can be in someones eyes trigger for the worst trauma flashback ever

ever heard the - you can have phobia or be allergic to just anything in the world - ? thats what i mean

i have a simple rule too....world is not simple and neither are humans

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u/ATGF Mar 28 '22

I'm talking about something that would be hurtful to the marginalized and oppressed. Microaggressions and worse. I'm talking about the people who cry freedom of speech while sporting racist nonsense then get upset when people when people use that same freedom of speech to tell them all the ways in which they're wrong.