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MariaTaylor posted...

interesting read. just finished it.

also it's an opinion piece. how can it be debunked? are you saying someone went through and proved that he doesn't actually believe all of the statements he typed out there? each of them? one by one? must have taken a lot of work.

Opinions can be wrong. It's always cute to say they can't be, but also mistaken because fundamentally, an opinion is a personal appraisal of a given fact or set of facts. If the facts you're opining on do not exist (ie they aren't true) or your opinion contradicts reality (every instance of assuming correlation implies causation, for example), your opinion is in fact wrong (or if you'd prefer, invalid and unworthy of being heard because it's as valuable to other people as a delusion). Opinions aren't voiced just to hear the sound of your own voice, they are voiced to advance a discussion with worthwhile observation, and from a more selfish point of view to acquire respect off of their perceived value to listeners. Thus if you cannot in fact provide something valuable to the discussion, your opinion is wrong.
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