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Guy.
I actually think your a kook who runs a kook moto website for all us other kooks to get to have our say.!
So cheers to you and all the other kooks out there Including me 🍻.
A perfect example is like how Instagram stopped showing like counts. It was because it raised the suicide numbers. For example 2 girls, best friends both post thier selfies on instagram. One girl get 500k followers and her friend gets 27. Now she has a complex that something is wrong with her and everything becomes a competition and the friendship ends etc. It created tons of new depressed people. Then you have 60 year olds arguing with 12 year olds and people who have 10000 close up selfies of only their face in every pic. Crazy comes in many flavors.
My life has always been revolved around moto first and I listen to every moto podcast and read as many articles as I can a day. It has consumed me for 40 some years and I believe it is a great community and a giant family. We have this great sport in common and most others can not even comprehend how amazing moto really is and I am grateful for that.
Honestly everytime I write something like this I erase it pretty soon after. Jacuzzi rant over!!
If it can do it now I am apologizing ahead of time
Pit Row
An opinion by definition doesn’t have to be based on facts.
This isn’t aimed at anyone in particular, just some general thoughts: If people better understood the concept or opinion, we’d all be much better off. There seems to be this idea floating around that opinions are a sort of brute preference, and as such they are immune to rational criticism. This is nonsense and should be recognized as such. It also makes people sensitive to having their opinions critiqued. If my opinion is not just a judgment I make but is the expression of some mysterious inner state with which I find myself, by criticizing my opinion you’re criticizing a part of my self. This is lunacy and should be expunged from out thoughts.
this won't happen, but there ya have it.
A certain amount of what confuses people about this whole topic is that opinions are often based on value judgments, and the fact/value distinction is not always well understood. You can rationally justify value judgments, and show some value judgments to be flawed. Or, more modestly, a forum can simply state community standards and forbid certain opinions based on those standards (then "wrong" is measured by said standards - this is, of course, easier and much more clear than arguing from abstract principles). The community standard then functions as a fact by which we judge the appropriateness of an opinion for the context (i.e. we can say that it is a fact that we have community standard "X" and forbid posts that contravene X without delving into the thornier issue of whether or not X is itself justified - if you don't like it, go elsewhere).
As a general point about argumentation, if what you are arguing about is how a word or concept should be best understood, you don't accomplish anything by pulling out a dictionary definition. I'm making a point about how "opinion" ought to be understood, while the dictionary simply reports how a word is typically used.
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