To me, an opinion is not worthy of the title "opinion" until it is supported with believable reasoning and/or factual basis. Until then it is merely a prejudice. People form "opinions" because they don't like the idea of something and excuse their minds from unbiased, exhaustive logic based on one or two scraps of incomplete info.

For example, people don't like the idea of global warming. Why would they? A problem is, they look at the chief advocate, Al Gore, and see that his energy bill is really high. Okay, brain, I proved he's a hypocrit, so he's wrong about global warming. If they were really serious about knowing truth, they'd look into it and find that his energy bill is high because he pays more for clean energy. duh.. :i feel stupid:

Religion? It would be a lot better if the most common tenet wasn't "we need to 'save' everyone we can." that thinking pervades into politics and distracts the public sphere from real, collective issues. People are dumb and are usually not capable of establishing their own set of viable ethics, plus they need to feel comforted about the hardships of mortality, so they pacify themselves with religion, in the process elevating themselves to an ivory tower existence and looking down on others' who ideology differs.

Stupid people don't realize they're stupid and feel their ideas are just as valuable as others'. If you think you're smart and well-read, you're stupid.

I love soccer and american football. Soccer is more finesse, the nfl requires the absolute maximum of your emotion, your strength, your functioning role on a team, your savvy, on every single play, or else you lose. Many parables for life...

I don't like that on this site, the high post-count members are too prideful to be inspired, informed, or reproved by any of the lesser post-count members. If I ever feel like I've shown something new or taught something to a veteran, i get silence in return. They're vocal when they think they're right, and then ignore you when they're out of things to counter you with. There are MANY seasoned members who do not fit this description, but they are the exception, not the rule. noobs, who's with me?