That's Just Your Opinion: Moral Relativism and the Death of Liberty
"Among my most hated clichés is one that you've undoubtedly heard countless times: "Everyone's entitled to an opinion."
It's
true, of course. Everyone does have the right to formulate and express
an opinion of his choosing. What I hate about the phrase is that it
implies that opinions are equally devised and should be measured as
such.
It's
a pseudo-argument that's not actually an argument – offered as pithy
wisdom but serving no purpose other than shutting down further
discussion about the substance being discussed.
A
person's specific opinion is justified or valuable not simply because
he has one. Opinions are not equal, nor should they appraised that way.
To illustrate my point, imagine that you sit at one side of a table............"
[American Thinker]
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