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I actually believe that there is only objective truth, and no "opinions". I follow the works of Kant and Rothbard.
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And I actually don't believe that, so there's one example of how people can have different opinions. To bring it back to Sam's point, this shows we don't have a unified view on this
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Opinions dont matter to reality is my point. Unification of opinion doesn't mean anything logically or morally.
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I'm not sure if even that is defensible, if a person has conflicting opinions and is in a position of power, they can matter greatly. For example Hitler's opinions on Jews/Gypsies
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That has nothing to do with moral or logical truth. Your conment is off-topic.
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It isn't off topic, but I'm beginning to doubt if you even know what you're talking about
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So you are only talking about a small subset of truths, and statements?
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I don't understand your question.
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You specified "moral or logical truth" in response to Hibuddha's question. So I am asking if you were only talking about that subset of true statements on the issue of objective truth.
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Moral truth is a subset, logical truth is the whole genre.
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So was his example off topic? If a person subjective opinion has power to enforce their subjective opinion on others, one could say subjective opinion can matter objectively.
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In that instance its not the opinion that matters, but the guns.
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You could say the guns enforced the opinions. I think it was the influence that spread the opinion to others though. The ideology mattered.
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No, your ideology doesn't objectively "matter" just because you can enforce it on others. You're playing a word game here.
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The ideology was not enforced so much as it spread. The people were not against the ideology.
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That's a VERY strange argument, opinions aren't always in response to objective, factual circumstances
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For example, the question "What should we do tonight?" has no objective truth, it forms entirely subjective opinions depending on who you ask