Ultimately, what's more important - consensus, or the individual right to hold an opinion? Because I can give you a number of examples when consensus agreed on one thing which wasn't necessarily the right thing (slavery, flat Earth, fairies, etc).
I'm not talking about saying egregious and offensive things just for the sake of annoying people, and neither am I talking about being deliberately obtuse and stubbornly holding a view even in the face of evidence. I'm talking about someone holding an opinion that's different from that of a majority. Granted, I'm pro-choice, but let's suppose I was pro-life and I went into a place where the majority are pro-choice, and I say I'm pro-life. Then what? Will I be talked down, and asked (in rather uncivil terms) to "take it or leave it"?
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Date: 2/9/11 09:15 (UTC)I'm not talking about saying egregious and offensive things just for the sake of annoying people, and neither am I talking about being deliberately obtuse and stubbornly holding a view even in the face of evidence. I'm talking about someone holding an opinion that's different from that of a majority. Granted, I'm pro-choice, but let's suppose I was pro-life and I went into a place where the majority are pro-choice, and I say I'm pro-life. Then what? Will I be talked down, and asked (in rather uncivil terms) to "take it or leave it"?