March 21st

I got into an argument with a friend of mine the other day.  I say argument because there was some shouting involved, and an incredibly annoying tendency to walk away whenever he didn't have a good counter argument.

The core of his argument against me seemed to be that my refusal to acknowledge all opinions as equally valid meant that I was ... I don't know, really.  Just that all opinions must be treated as equally fair, and further that any information I cited (that is, factual information, statistics, etc) were "just my opinion" and so had no more weight that "anyone else's opinion."

The world must be a terrifying place when you've resigned yourself to the idea that all beliefs -- no matter  how ignorant, regressive, hateful, or pandering they are, regardless of any evidence that might show that the actions supported by those beliefs are ineffective or even counterproductive -- have equal validity.