No. The earth doesn’t get flat no matter how much people you get to believe it. As for opinions, they’re still just opinions. There’s no right and wrong opinion.
If you describe an opinion as right or wrong, you are talking about the opinion’s relation to reality. And opinions certainly do have such relation.
No, whether or not you like the colour blue does not matter to reality. Whether you consider it blue is, but that is not an opinion.
opinions aren’t fact. They’re just a subjective bit of meaning you’ve got in your head, and only in your head.
Nothing matters to reality. “Mattering” is a human judgement. “Fact” is also a human judgement. The things you have in your head that you call facts and opinions are both the same kind of thing. We consider the ones that model reality effectively to be facts. They are all opinions and discerning which we classify as facts is an ongoing process.
I did not say opinions are fact. And I am not saying that opinions change reality. But your assertions about what facts and opinions are is incorrect.
Ehen we’re going into the more abstract discussion of facts and opinions, it might be better to define how you’re using these terms rather than throw accusations.
Most people define fact as “a thing that is true”. And opinion as “how one feels about something”.
Personally I prefer to use fact as “a statement that can be checked”. But in every day conversation like here, I don’t. Because that would just confuse most people.
What are you using?
“If you believe murder is wrong because society told you murder is wrong, is murder really wrong?”
Hitler got many people to believe that murder is right when it’s done to specific people. Did that make it right? Of course not.
I think every nation offers that argument, not just Hitler.
Very true, we murder people all the time in the US when they do something horrific enough for us to dole out that punishment. Lots of everyday people are convinced it’s okay to do so.
