BlueMage said:
Where your opinion contradicts facts, it's wrong.
No it's not, it's still your opinion, your view on a set of events. The facts you see and accept will totally differ from the facts i see and accept...its all about perspective. Sometimes things will be considered facts that you have strong reason to believe are flawed or just plain wrong. Similarly you will see things that you consider facts that the majority of people don't accept.
Take 9/11 for instance. They have done a poll recently that showed that 1/7 people in Britain and USA don't believe the 'facts' of the event as they are shown. If they have good reason to doubt what they have been told then you can't reasonably say their opinion is wrong.
'The world is flat' used to be a fact, as did many other scientific 'facts'. They were all proven to be wrong and the facts changed. Was the opinion of the people who proved them wrong, actually wrong, until the moment it became fact? No, of course not.
Fact and truth are both as subjective as opinion and as such all you can say is 'i disagree' and hope your arguement for why that is so is strong enough to sway their opinion.
If you disagree with this statement then we have different opinions on what an opinion is lol. Now its getting confusing