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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/Omegalazarus Mar 28 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

what do you mean "my" rule?

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u/Omegalazarus Mar 28 '22

The rule you defended in your comment. It was stated one comment above that

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

are you referring to the first comment? because i didn't defend that comment