Saturday, March 29, 2025
ESSAY - AN OPINON ON OPINIONS
But, there are a couple of other reasons.
I have an opinion. It may not be yours. That doesn't mean I don't like, or, even love you. It just means we disagree on something.
Sure, it's bigger stuff than which side of the plate the fork goes on, but, still, our 'opinions' are not necessarily 'facts', and, you generally need facts to form solutions to real problems, and opinions on HOW something can or should be done are not solutions.
You need facts about the problem to come up with a solution. and then you need facts about what can be done, and what the results will be when you create the solution.
People with different opinions, about the problem, about the solution, or both, can be "wrong", or at each others' throats, even if they agree on the facts.
The problem is that the facts, as the Porter Wagoner song says, "The Cold Hard Facts Of Life", are very seldom known to us...the opinionated public.
I have worked for four governmental agencies, often being made aware of real facts that the public did not know...sometimes because they were classified, sometimes because it would have taken some formal training sessions to bring 'the public' up to speed where they actually knew what was going on.
I have worked for and with some businesses, where I heard loud, long, and violent complaints from competitors, customers, and parties who didn't even have skin in the game about these organizations' motives, actions, and goals. Most of these complaints originated out of ignorance of what the organization actually intended to do, and/or actually did.
You and I are free to have and voice our opinions about the problem and the solution. In most cases, these thoughts will NOT be based on facts, at least not the real facts.
I used to do a lot of 'due diligence' tracking down the 'facts' on what people posted about political and economic issues. I gave up. Many times, the 'facts' were completely wrong. Sometimes they were twisted or misunderstood. But, in most instances, liberal or conservative, if you must have labels, there was no way of knowing all the facts.
All one could do was form an opinion...and, perhaps, state it.
It's not worth getting in a fight over opinions.
That's my opinion, and, it's not worth getting in a fight over either.
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Labels: donovan baldwin, essay, opinions
# posted by Donovan Baldwin @ 4:50 PM 
