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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: S. maltophilia who wrote (94976)9/14/2025 3:37:56 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 97552
 
That article is an example of an intelligent person who never learned how to properly separate facts from opinions. Facts are not fragile, opinions are.

Court rulings are opinions, not facts.

A conservative and a liberal may disagree on the environmental laws. That is a matter of opinion. But they should not disagree on the facts because you can place sensors and objectively measure the pollution.

An easy test (for some facts) is this: how angry do you get when someone opposes it?

Opposition to facts should not make you angry because unlike what Hannah Arendt said, facts are not fragile.

For example, if someone tells me the the world doesn't exist and it's all in my head, then I will not get angry. Rather I will simply ask them to prove it by walking blindfolded in a busy street or on a cliff. If they are right, then they should be safe by simply believing they will be fine.

And this brings us to the 2nd test of facts: you don't have to believe in the facts for them to be effective.

On the other hand, if you claim that Jesus was a bastard or Mohammed was a conman, you will anger a lot of people precisely because your opinion clashes with their opinion and opinions are fragile.

It is the fragility of opinions that angers the person because they are vulnerable. Anyone can change their opinion. That's why opposing opinions bother us and cause heated debates. They are battlegrounds.
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