I know this is intended as a shitpost, but it points to a very deep epistemological problem. By definition, everyone thinks any given opinion of theirs is right (if they didn’t, then that wouldn’t be their opinion). But of course not everyone can have all the right opinions all the time
Isn’t the solution to that problem really simple though? Just value doubt.
I actually had that thought as I was posting this. I was mocking people who are arrogant about their beliefs and refuse to be proven wrong, but I was also thinking about this paradox that every person believes each of their opinions to be correct yet also knows they can’t all be correct
I checked out all of your opinions, then believed the opposite.
i was born this way
I investigated myself and found out that I’m right. Lol
Many, many years of being right in the first place
I’m always wrong, so I take my initial opinion I truly believe and then I choose to hold the opposite of that opinion.
Always being wrong though means that my choice to hold the opposite opinion is also wrong therefore it makes my initial opinion correct.
This made me think of that Seinfeld episode where George does the exact opposite of every decision he would normally make, and then someone else posted a gif from it
Common sense, I guess…
Be like water. Let your opinions take shape.
Statements of fact can be proved or disproved with objective evidence, whereas statements of opinion depend on personal values and preferences.
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/fact-opinion-differentiation/
School of hard knocks yo.
Because i said so, duh
Well played! 😅
I know this doesn’t happen for everyone but for me it was when I became a father.
