You are not entitled to your opinion

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• 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

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between wanting people to stop saying it because it's annoying, and preferring they keep saying it as it's a clear marker that the person is immune to reason on that point and probably a fuckwit in other respects too. See also 'at the end of the day', 'I'm not being funny or anything', and 'I'm not racist but'.

[dudley-doright.livejournal.com]

This. "I'm entitled to my opinion" is the call by which a non-rationalist identifies him/herself. If you can't get them to read and understand the linked articles first, you're pretty much done.