Unpopular opinion: opinions cannot be wrong.

Melledoneus·8/6/2018, 6:36:26 AM·10 votes·2,803 views

The philosophy of an opinion is based entirely on personal observation, resulting in perceived and formulated thoughts often clouded in bias, to create a view of an aspect of something pertaining to the physical or the metaphysical world. Thus, as a proponent of a formulation of our thoughts and a coagulated viewpoint surrounding said aspect, and not based around or directly associated with fact, an opinion cannot be concluded as correct or incorrect. When an opinion is stated to be correct or incorrect, it is impossible to see a statement like this as fact, since opinions are augmented and processed observations passed through a personal filter, thus making any statement surrounding opinions being wrong or right also opinions.

Should an opinion that is 'unpopular,' as a result become heavily supported by an audience, the unpopularity of said opinion is not seen as disproved, but merely perceived through a different personal lens. Therefore, if the 99% majority supports an opinion, said opinion can still be considered unpopular through opinionated observation, should popularity standards be set between 99 and 100. By setting alpha in this range, we can determine that, although quite slim, the opinion can still be considered popular, but must surpass that alpha value at the end of the curve.

In other words, you have deliberately squandered your time reading this elaborately constructed and overly convoluted labyrinth of text and hidden word meanings. Enjoy the rest of your days.

19 Comments

artcrime29998/6/2018, 6:52:20 AM2 votes

Jokes on you, Im a speed reader and that only took like 4 seconds

BlueNinja898/6/2018, 7:04:11 AM1 votes

An opinion can be wrong if it treated as an absolute truth and yet can not be proven with facts.

For instance, if someone says that a movie is really popular even though many people actually hated said movie then they would be wrong even though they believe themselves to be right.

Furthermore, an opinion can also be wrong if it actually contradicts proven facts.

For instance, North America does not exist. It is actually India. (If this were true then what about the real India?)

We tend to call people that have such opinions "delusional."

[garen-swing]

SEKAI8/6/2018, 7:26:26 AM1 votes

Opinions can't be wrong, but the facts or the perceived facts one bases on to form their opinion, however can be. So if I say "I like math because 1+1=3", others have can not say about my opinion on liking or dislike something is wrong or right, but they can tell me that 1+1=2 and not 3.

Also, opinions can also be wrong if your opinion is expressed in the form of a statement, and if it directly contradicts proven truth. So if you say "I believe 1+1=3", then that opinion is definitely wrong, because 1+1=2 (though I must confess that "1+1=2" is not "truth" but rather it is a mathematically expression that outlines the fundamental of arithmetic addition; but for most people, it can be treated as a "truth").

A lot of people just use "opinions can't be wrong" as an excuse to be as intellectually lazy or dishonest as possible, while hiding behind the supposed all-encompassing idea that 'because I can label anything I said as opinion, therefore I can't be wrong somewhere in any way'.

Shukr4n8/6/2018, 7:27:29 AM1 votes

If unpopular opinion were right ww wouls not have the zero tolerance words.

Pandeonor8/6/2018, 7:48:13 AM1 votes

The biggest problem are all things wich are not obviously "proven facts" but wich can only be explained well.

Ever heard of the total fertility rate (TFR)?

For about 30-40 years now the TFR was just bad. It told us that we have a xy kids per wife/couple. The method measureing it was to count babys born by women aged let´s say 20-30, extrapolate it to all women and compare. As the women in 70´s and following years decided to get their babys later then before the base number (not the number in the end) wich was extrapolated was extremely shrinking. Biased.

In the Czech Republic the TFR was growing from 2000-2012 from 1.2 to 1.5 childs per woman (after it dropped before extremely; the "way back").

This is an "opinion" as usual happens in minds. You find the data wich supports this "opinion".

The "better opinion" can be read under the TFRp wich is a time and parity adjusted TFR wich trys to exclude the bias before. TFRp shows for 2000-2012 a dropping amount of babys per women by 1.9 (instead of 1.2 in year 2000) to 1.6 (2012). About 1 decade (or western 3 decades) the people were told falling or growing fertility rates wich were wrong. Opinions. Supported and spread by politicians, professors, media. Disprooved by sites as https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/vid/data/demographic-data-sheets/eureopean-demographic-data-sheet-2016/ or https://www.humanfertility.org/cgi-bin/country.php?country=DEUTNP&tab=si but never corrected.

League is dying. TFR. Sky is red, green, yellow, universe is a nutshell.

Opinions.

As long as someone calls his personal sight of anything and others follow him because they want to (or/and too ?).... well.....

Opinions are mostly decisions about how someone wants to see the reality. Not totally surreal, but sometimes. Not wrong for sure, but sometimes.

You can see this in every of the "League is dying" discussions. It is impossible to pull any of the discussions to the edge of available data. That is the same for most economic discussions. It´s just because as long as you don´t have really hard data you can have every possible opinion. In many cases you have none ex ante so you only can claim ex post "told you so before".... and you will be called an idiot by the ones wich were wrong.

The way life works.

oOBestEveNAOo8/6/2018, 8:14:14 AM1 votes

The undeniable fact is that this thread is brilliant.

hhaavviikk8/6/2018, 12:04:46 PM1 votes

''my opinion is that I'm a fairy unicorn with a horn and magical rainbow farts'' opinion is wrong

EvilUnicornLord8/6/2018, 5:29:52 PM1 votes

https://i.giphy.com/media/26BRrSvJUa0crqw4E/giphy.webp

EDIT: Link died on me. He was carrying no fairies in bottles.

Busty Demoness8/7/2018, 7:42:44 AM1 votes

True. Opinions cannot be wrong.

But they can be bad, biased, skewed, clouded, good, popular, unpopular, and a whole host of other descriptors in a wide spectrum because truth/fiction is binary.

LeftyRaydy8/7/2018, 6:57:52 PM1 votes

opinions can be wrong. Such as the opinion of a flat earther is that the earth is flat, but it isnt makes them wrong and ignorant.

The Highest Noon8/7/2018, 7:10:28 PM1 votes

Opinions by definition cannot be "wrong" BUT they can be either uninformed/misinformed or morally/intrinsically incorrect.

Pika Fox8/7/2018, 7:13:11 PM1 votes

Jokes on you, i only read one sentence then skipped to the bottom.

SugeMinPikk8/7/2018, 7:15:02 PM1 votes

Opinions can be wrong if they're rooted in false "facts"