What constitutes as an opinion?
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December 12th, 2009
The main reason for this question is to settle a dispute between myself and a friend as to what may be considered an opinion. Here are both of our arguments -
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“I’ve often heard many people (family, friends) remark that judging people is a bad thing (labels and the like), particularly when the judgment is negative in its nature. Is not an opinion the equivalent of a judgment, only hidden behind politeness or falsified (but believable) pretenses? It seems to me that judgments and opinions are one and the same.”
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“Opinions and judgments are different in one major aspect, opinions are based on actual information on an individual or situation (with no background information, or being indifferent to it) while judgments are based on information gathered by a third party without any actual experience with the individual or situation.”
My friend and I debated for some time so we would like others input, hopefully we can come to some conclusion, even if neither of us are actually right.
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Opinions and judgements are harmless as long as they come from the throat and not the heart.
If you just have to get something off your chest about a person, that is ok. But if you say it sincerely, it is iniquitous.
God is real, Or not. All depend on who you ask.
Piety is a very unattractive quality.
Hmm I would say that an opinion and a judgment are the same thing. Except a judgment is an opinion based on facts or evidence provided usually in favor or against who ever is being judged. And an opinion does not require facts to be made. Besides, why does the supreme court write so many opinions and not judgments after a case that they hear? I rest my case.
A judgement is an opinion. The only difference is the extension of the words – “judgment” is often negative when one is talking about people’s opinions of others. For example, people often talk about “passing judgement on X” – this suggests that an evaluative opinion has been formed, and personally evaluating people is not, perhaps, something that is encouraged by our societies. Compare with “forming an opinion on X” – this doesn’t carry the same connotative meaning, although it does suggest a similar process.
There is a difference in context of use as well – “opinion”, imo, is used on a wider variety of topics than “judgement”.
Like assholes, everyones got one.
Opinions are what you derive after making a judgement,rational or irrational,depending on which universe you ant top live in ;)
Opinions are your personal views derived from whatever logic you go by to make sense of something, and then judge accordingly. They’re probably usually biased, and require no actual fact to be defined as opinion.
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