OPINION VS BELIEF

To all bigots, know that your thoughts are yours and how they got there is from someone else, coupled with life experiences. Your life experiences are not the same as gathered wisdom, but more of a world-view without looking at things worldly. While you cite that your opinions are simply that and no one can touch them, or declare their error, you have ironically doubled down upon that very mistake. Opinions are thoughts on a subject that hold no defense and are altered in the face of better evidence on the subject. The mistake becomes purposeful and perverted when the “opinion” is guised as “belief”.

It’s easy to share hatred in something, someone, or a group you don’t understand let alone know. You then have a choice; like anyone else. Side with the bland anger of mob mentality (even if that mob is one other), or ask simple questions to the initial claimer such as, “What makes what you say true,” and then listen to their answer. A clear sign of you being dictated is when your query gains annoyance, frustration, or even anger from the one queried.

You may not know your level of discomfort on a subject, but ask yourself this before you dive into your opinion, or your “opinion”, “Does this harm me physically, mentally, or financially?” If what someone does, does not affect you in either of those ways, walk on because, “no harm, no foul.” A clear form of failing to be civil is if you learn…