Tuesday, August 19, 2014

MY OPINION ISN'T A RIGHT


  • "The Right to my Opinion" is a cognitive dissonance, which conflicts with the people's belief that they can say or think anything because they have "the right to their opinion."
  • " I have a right to my opinion" or "I'm entitled to my opinion" is a misconception carried by people because they don't know what a right literally means.
  • Right: "a moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way."
  • If you're entitled to your opinion, a belief not necessarily based on facts and proofs, then it means you can think or say whatever you like to. Then can I walk up to a person of a different ethnicity and insult them? Hey, I have the "right to my opinion."
  • According to a comedian Ricky Gervais, "Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and they do, if you're rational."
  • Our rights mean the community's duties.
  • Why are we imposing our rights as duties on others?
  • If I don't get a job, do I blame myself for not being qualified or the community for not providing it to me?
  • To what extent do our rights go? If we choose to harm our bodies, is it our neighbor's responsibility to protect us?
  • I think the only thing stopping us from doing anything to ourselves or others is the law. The law prohibits a driver to hit a passenger; it prohibits individuals to harm themselves through drugs, depression, suicide; the law prohibits us to not insult other ethnicity because of our so called right to have an opinion. 

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