Dear People with Stupid Opinions

Everyone is entitled to their opinions. There's nothing wrong with having different opinions, and disagreeing on things. One of the important things about our country is free speech, it's okay for people to have their own opinions and voice them.

But there's a difference between having legitimate, different opinion, and being wrong. Let's start with an example that I think everyone will agree with me on, so you can see my point. The world is round, this is a fact. Some people, for some reason, still believe that the Earth is flat. Some would argue that it's their right to have their opinion about the shape of the Earth. In general, that's true, they have the right to have their own opinion on things, but this is not a case like that. The shape of the Earth is not an opinion, this is a hard fact that has been conclusively proven in a multitude of ways. Thinking the Earth is flat is not "your opinion" or anything, you're just plain wrong.

Of course, that particular example isn't a big deal. There are very few of you who actually believe that, and for the most part the rest of us are content just laughing at the silly idea and not caring. The problem is that people act similarly with plenty of other things. "Global warming isn't real", "evolution isn't true", "the holocaust didn't happen", these are just a few common examples. Now, I know some of these, particularly evolution, are a little bit sensitive topics for some people, but the fact of the matter is that all these things are real. I'm not talking about the degree to which each of them is real. It's not about how strong global warming is, it's not about if life was created by God or evolved all by chance, it's just about the concepts existing at least on some level. You cannot be of the "opinion" that scientific fact is wrong, that's not an opinion, that's just being wrong.

Stop being stupid, and accept the difference between fact and opinion.
-SF