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People asserting their opinion as though it were fact.

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  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    I think the real problem here is that quite a few people aren't stating their opinions as fact. It should be obvious from context clues/common sense that they are stating an opinion.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    Someone hasn't been reading Objectivist tripe writing.

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    >Expecting philosophy not to assume it's the One True Way

    Stop holding Objectivism to standards different from every other philosophy.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    ?

  • TheMightyAnonymTheMightyAnonym
    edited 2011-09-24 09:45:11
    ~♥YES♥~! I *AM* a ~♥cupcake♥~! ^_^
    ^^^^Wow, I just agreed with Chagen.

    I feel very out of place for doing so....
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Yeah, except Chagen is guilty of doing what he says people shouldn't do.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    the problem is that people can't accept that good intentions don't mean much if you can't word properly what you're trying to convey.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    It's a reason used in works all the time

    ALL THE TIME.

    IF you fail the execution, IT doesn't matter if you just revolutionized human rights, no one is gonna listen to you.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    Doesn't someone have to listen to you for you to revolutionize human rights? Or is this a narcissism thing?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-09-24 09:50:52
    You can change. You can.
    It bears mentioning that you can't hardly revolutionize human rights if nobody listens.

    ^Clocky means conceptually, rather than actually doing so.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    My opinions are always correct.

    Except when they aren't.
  • AHRAHR
    I've been told I do this.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Is that your opinion, or a simple fact?

    :p
  • AHRAHR
    Well, it is fact that people have told me this.
  • BeholderessBeholderess
    This one thinks it is good when people accept and admit that their opinions might not quite match reality. It is also good when people can separate facts from their opinions about them.

    However, not every sentence needs to be precessed by "this is only my personal opinion", even if it is, because, well, noone claimed otherwise.

    And yes, of course it is all nothing but this one's personal opinion.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    On the flipside, it's even more annoying when someone insists that something is just your opinion, when it... isn't.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    *cough* *cough* Climate change.
  • TheMightyAnonymTheMightyAnonym
    ~♥YES♥~! I *AM* a ~♥cupcake♥~! ^_^
    "However, not every sentence needs to be precessed by "this is only my
    personal opinion", even if it is, because, well, noone claimed
    otherwise."

    YES!
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Technically, What I've been saying is that isn't the case.

    People are saying it's a fact even when pushed.

    You would've realized this, had you read the thread, but I suppose reading a one-page thread is too difficult.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    On the flipside, it's even more annoying when someone insists that something is just your opinion, when it... isn't.

    examples?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2011-09-26 01:10:43
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    The Holocaust happened.

    Black people aren't inherently inferior.

    Climate Change is happening.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    well, those are facts. What I meant is that I've never seen someone do what Wicked did. 
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    That's the thing though. People will say those things are opinions when they're not.
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