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(1) Opinions can't be incorrect. They are opinions and they are how one perceives things. And each to their own. If you disagree, fine by that.
I understand that this statement was undoubtedly made in reference to whether or not Player A is any good or not, or something of that ilk, but I can't leave its general premise unchallenged. I don't mean to single you out NBTJ35.

The reason I have a problem with this statement is because it is often used to defend beliefs that should have been discarded. It becomes a way of saying “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, that continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. As far as I'm concerned this attitude feeds into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of many aspects of our public discourse (e.g., immunisations, climate change, etc.).

Furthermore, "I'm entitled to my opinion" gets bandied about quite often. If “Everyone’s entitled to their opinion” just means no-one has the right to stop people thinking and saying whatever they want, then the statement while true, is fairly trivial. However if ‘entitled to an opinion’ means ‘entitled to have your views treated as serious candidates for the truth’ then it’s patently false. And this too is a distinction that tends to get blurred.

Perhaps this is not the forum for a mini-treatise on philosophy; we can and do have differing opinions on, well, most everything on this board, but to suggest that opinions can't be wrong is, well, wrong.
 

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