The three tenets of my ideology.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

I believe in

1) The right to be wrong.
2) The duty not to be.
3) The sacrament of argument.

The best way to get as many people to be right about as many things as possible is to permit people to be wrong, and to argue about who is and who isn't with no legal sanction, and as little ego as humanly possible (which, sadly, is a lot of ego - being told that you are wrong is often an unpleasant experience) at stake.

In an ideal world, all children should be trained to defend their opinions, and to understand that it's not morally OK to have an opinion unless you can offer a reasoned justification for it. But only the individual should be an arbiter of what is and isn't a correctly reasoned justification for a belief.

[chrisa]

1. Being wrong is how one learns. Defending an opinion when the facts state otherwise is ignorance.

Sadly, there's a lot of "ego" when discussing opinions these days. Most people will double down and defend an opinion that is not supported by the facts just because they "cannot be wrong." A good example is the anti-global warming crowd.

[padfun]

2. Some I like, some I don't.

it's not morally OK to have an opinion unless you can offer a reasoned justification for it

This is not a good idea. Some opinions are based on intuition and such. When we have reasoned justification, we can call those facts. (Although what distinguishes a fact from an opinion is that a fact can be measured.)

On Edit: I think I know what you are trying to get at, but you shouldn't say it is "morally" when it should be something else. It is NOT morally wrong to have any kind of opinion unless that opinion actually hurts others or hurts the environment.

Otherwise any religious belief is immoral. It is not based on facts of any kind, and there can't possibly be any reasoned justification for it.

[randome]

3. Rodney King said it more concisely.

"Can't we all just get along?"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[2naSalit]

4. ^^THIS^^