http://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978
"The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often,
it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes
shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension,
continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I
suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that
is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse."
Well stated.
Via Kee Hinckley and also sara stanley.
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