You are not entitled to your opinion

[ciphergoth]

• You Are Never Entitled to Your Opinion
  
• Sorry, but you are not entitled to your opinion
  
• Why You Are Not Entitled To Your Opinion

You are, I think, entitled to the right to hold and express any opinion without being shut down by the State for doing so; that is where the entitlement ends.

[Poll #1410915]
(edit: removed Harlan Ellison quote, which doesn't really express what I'm getting at here)

Comments

[aster13.livejournal.com]

I think that this is quite important, actually.

I *do* think very much that people have the right to hold their own beliefs and opinions, even if i or anybody else thinks that they are bloody stupid, incorrect or offensive. These opinions may very well not be true, and i have just as much right to not have the same opinion, and to think that their opinion is bloody stupid/incorrect/offensive.

If people do not have the right to their own beliefs, then what is the end result of this? A totalitarian state which deems some opinions inappropriate and punishable by...what?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

How could I have been more explicit about this? There's only one complete sentence in the post above which isn't a link or a poll or a title, and it addresses this point.

If you think I'm advocating totalitarianism here, then you're not reading anything I've said or any of the articles I link to, and instead of replying to what I actually think you've picked an unpopular viewpoint that contains some of the same words and replied to that instead.

Please read at least one of the articles I linked to, and reply to what they actually say.

[babysimon]

You should have bought a Mac in the first place.