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

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

Ah, fair enough. I wonder if they were mangling the argument (which I may be about to express poorly myself) that it's equally (in)valid to say that God exists and that God doesn't exist, because God isn't the sort of object to which a quality like existence can apply.

But I agree that "there are different kinds of truth such that both a statement and its negation are true" is bunk.

[wight1984.livejournal.com]

When I hear it said, it is typically to suggest that 'truth' doesn't exist outside of subjective belief, so simply believing something makes it 'true for them' and hence they can't be said to be incorrect. Bugs me a lot :oP

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're entitled to their opinion.

:-)