Opinion about opinions

A very silly taunt I get a lot from the peanut gallery is basically " You think you ' re right and I ' m wrong and that makes you intolerant. " Sheesh. A) Everybody thinks they ' re right, that ' s what it means to think something. It ' s tautological. B) I could say exactly the same thing to you.But let ' s try to unpack disagreeing with somebody with disrespecting them. Here ' s what I think.1. There is a certain measure of respect and consideration that is due to every human. It gets complicated -- we can argue about exactly what that consists of and how to honor it in the case of people who transgress boundaries. An implication for me is that yes, I should try to understand why people sometimes have beliefs that I am quite sure are wrong. But it doesn ' t mean that I can ' t be certain of my own beliefs and consider others to be in error.2. Again, and I feel like a broken record, there are different kinds of beliefs and they have different kinds of wrongness. If you believe that the earth is flat, that it is 10,000 years old, and that climate change is a hoax, you are wrong in one kind of way. If you believe that people of northern European descent are the master race and that all others should be subservient you are wrong in a different kind of way. There might be some incorrect factual beliefs associated with it, but it is not on the whole a factual belief, it is a moral belief, or really an entire system for organizing your understanding of reality. 3. While all p...
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