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[burnanddie]

ok, im writing a paper about whether its important to have a strong opinion on any given issue or not. i need some ideas. input please?

go nuts. seriously. anything you think, no matter how hair-brained it is.

why is it/is it not important to have a strong opinion or be opinionated?

Comments

[maripoo6]

i think opinions are great! and having strong opinions on different topics is necessary for the functioning of our universe. however, the problem is not whether or not we have the opinions, but what we choose to do with them. what's the point of having an opinion on a matter, if we're not going to do anything about it other than argue with people who don't agree? most of us spend so much time trying to convince them to think the way we do and putting them down when we fail miserably, but very few of us ever do anything about it. much like me right now. i'm going off on how people should do something about their problems but i'm not really doing anything about mine. i'm not doing anything to make people do something. but that's not my point. my point is if someone truly believes that deeply in any given cause or in any given matter, reason dictates he should want to do something about it (beyond complaining and arguing). so if this holds true, i suppose the problem is really that people's opinions aren't strong enough. so in short, yes, people should have strong opinions BECAUSE it is the only way to solve the problems of the world.

and i must say i sort of agree with armando. i hate it when people talk about stuff they know nothing about. they waste everyone's time and make themselves sound stupid. it's a lose-lose situation so STOP! only i don't think science can be invoked in every single argument. but that might just be beacuse i am not a very scientific person, and i am not prone to using science to support my causes. i tend to lean toward the humanities... you know law and such :D (even though the law is not necessarily correct 100% of the time) i guess science works, and facts are always useful, but not everything can be explained through numbers and percentages (regardless of what crazy super hero indian chief math teachers have tried to tell you;)).

[mexicorules]

Yeah but law is based on something concrete; law is concrete. (feel free to disagree if I'm wrong) I just don't like people who use non-concrete. non-fact-based opinions and try to prove your wrong with that. An opinion is strengthened and made more valid when it's backed up by something concrete and real.