Poll: Can an opinion be wrong?

[SL33TBL1ND]

Of course, if my opinion is that the sky is pretty cloudy today and it's completely blue here then my opinion is wrong.

Different people have different ideas about what is cloudy and is a clear sky. Even an illogical opinion to YOU is not a wrong opinion, it makes perfect sense in another's mind.

Opinions can be neither right or wrong. Beliefs can be wrong, but not opinions.

Beliefs and ideologies are extensions of sets of opinions. How can you say beliefs can be wrong but not opinions?

For every belief there are defenders. Simply because they are out-numbered doesn't mean the majority is right.

If there are no clouds in the sky and someone says it's cloudy. They are WRONG. Thus, there opinion of the sky is wrong.

You are brought up by a society that believes no clouds in the sky = clear sky.
To you and your society, that someone is wrong.
He/she believes no clouds = cloudy.

You and your society can throw everything it has on the fact that clear sky = clear sky. Evidence after evidence, more than enough to logically explain, to you, clear sky = clear sky.
Yet, are you sure you are right?
Fundamental laws in sciences are alterable and inherently subjected to our observations.
Newton's Principia (the three laws of motion which we study in physics), taken for granted by the masses after its publication, has all of a sudden been changed and improved by Albert Einstein just recently in the last century.
Our common sense tells us this is impossible, but hypothetically, what if one day science states no clouds = cloudy?

All of a sudden you will find yourself in the "wrong".

Now that's just silly, firstly, we can both agree that I am currently correct for not cloudy does = not cloudy. Secondly the only way that could change if you could have less clouds than no clouds. Only then would a comparison yield us the result of not cloudy = cloudy. Tell me, how could there possibly be negative clouds in the sky. Until such time as that is possible, I am correct and by extension, the other person is wrong.

I am going to try different words (I never talked about negative clouds).

Your confidence in your logic is from common scientific understanding and the fact that other humans think the same as you.

I am saying that science is alterable at a moment's notice and people, no matter how many, can be wrong. Any fact is subject to change.

Are you willing to admit you are mistaken even if the argument defies logic?

I would be willing to change my point of view if new information came out to prove I was wrong, but until that time, I am correct and someone who thinks differently is wrong.

 

[tofulove]

Of course they can. If your opinion is that one race is inferior to another, your opinion is wrong.

white people took over most of the world at one point world and invented most things, Asians made every thing the white man made better. black people are good at professional sports and native Americans were the first to use 0 in math. different but defendantly equal across the bord.

You forgot about the blue people... and aliens... and what about the Latino community?

OT: Opinions themselves cannot be wrong because they are not a fact, but a statement based off information which may or may not be wrong. Simply saying a false statement doesn't mean you have a wrong opinion, it just means you're an idiot of thinking that counts as an opinion.

Latino is mostly native American with a splash of European ancestry.

 

[tofulove]

one thing total over looked in this, conversation, last time i responded to it i was awake for 23 hours, and total overlooked the fact there only one race, the human race, just different breeds. just saying for the record.

also opinions by there definition cant be wrong(if its not a subject were there is a definite answer). but as many have pointed out can be different types of opinions some of which based in false evidence making them invalid, and some not in a subject were opinions have a place in, like water is bad for humans, isn't a opinion its you being wrong.