My Opinion Isn't {A} Right

Right to Your Opinion

The implied argument of the muddler:

1. If someone is entitled to an opinion than his/her opinion is well supported by evidence (this is precisely what it means to be entitled to an opinion.).
2. I am entitled to my opinion (as is everyone else in a democratic society.)
3. Therefore, my opinion is well-supported by evidence.

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity."

-World Health Organization in defense of the meaning of 'being healthy'.

-Saying that you have "the right to your own opinion" is not only irrelevant to the topic being discussed, but distracting as well.  A diversion on the matter of rights gets no one any closer to answering the question at hand.

-If two people disagree, and one says the right to his/her opinion, there is someone who having his/her rights violated.

In Class-

• Interdependence-  shared authority based on other people.
• Ripple Effect- we effect others through our actions, and they others by their actions, and so on.
• Limbic- emotional part of the brain.
• Schema- thinking based on routine.