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Opinions don’t lend themselves to being wrong or right. That’s what makes them opinions! They’re better described as agreeable or disagreeable.
by otterley 4y ago
Opinions don’t lend themselves to being wrong or right. That’s what makes them opinions! They’re better described as agreeable or disagreeable.
- wrs 4y agoOf course they can. You don’t get a pass on correctness just because you call your incorrect statement an opinion. E.g., “in my opinion, the Earth is a torus.”
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- otterley 4y agoI agree with you - your example is not an opinion statement, regardless of the first clause. But that’s not what we’re talking about. The actual article is an opinion piece.
- wrs 4y ago“I don’t like broccoli” is an opinion that is neither right nor wrong. “California could solve the problem for every member of the Colorado River Compact by developing infrastructure to use untapped sources of water” is an opinion that is certainly right or wrong, even though nobody knows which it is.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoIt's called an opinion piece, but since it is proposing solutions to problems it would be better called a policy piece. Policies lend themselves to being right or wrong with respect to the issues the policies are meant to address.