Opinions ~*~*~ the ever-growing virus plaguing the internet. WHY YOU ASK !! [you ask why] Because they're everywhere. Now if they were correct that would be no problem, but people are just spurting them out everywhere without even considering, hey, they might be wrong. Now, me, writing these articles, you may think "well you could be wrong too", and yes of course the possibility exists, but I'll tell you right now - I'm not. And you probably consider this arrogant or conceited depending on how well you know me, but I will tell you of how to always be right. That is - how to always appear correct. ( "always correct" is not meant in a literal sense; for example, you can get an answer wrong on a test yet always be right upon presentation) Before you're going to type or say something, be absolutely certain that that is how it is. That what you're going to say, is right. Is correct. That's all there is to it. Before I submit each RC, I show them to my associates. (including other vaels) They go through everything with a thin, thin comb and make sure everything is correct, that it cannot be refuted. So far, I had to eat my hat for encouraging recycling, and I've had to rephrase things twice to get the message out properly without fuddling it all up. But do you know what I hate even more than when people are wrong? When they think they can't be proven wrong because "it's an opinion". That really steams my brocolli. It's what we call a "fallacy" in the land of sophisticated debate. They claim that just because they are thinking it, it is their thought, that it doesn't need to be proven. This is surprisingly half correct. I split opinion into two terms, "objective opinion" and "subjective opinion". Subjective opinion uses the same example I explain to many people... You can say, "I don't like pizza." and it can't be proven wrong. No one can tell you that you don't like pizza. You can then however claim, "The pizza I am eating currently is of low quality.", and depending how well-trained (and who) the receiver of your words is, they will say, "Well then I'd like for you to explain why this pizza is of low quality.", or just ignore you. Depending on how well you're trained, you will either prove your opinion right, or you will say that after all you just meant you didn't like it. A great example was given by my favorite hacker in history. He said to a man, "You have green hair." the man said, "No, I don't. (objective defense)". In that case, and only up to that point, the hacker was "technically" proven wrong. The man did not have green hair, he had brown. So then he says, "You are a bad reporter." and the man (who was a reporter of course) said, "Why? (objective defense)". He didn't get angry and say "RAAAGH YOU'RE A BAD HACKER (subjective defense)", he didn't say, "Well that's your opinion. (subjective defense)". He asked why. That's good training right there - you should only be offended if you have something to be offended for. In conclusion, ( I love formally concluding my articles ) saying "well that's your opinion" is a sissypants copout unless you are talking about subjective opinions in which case you have successfully stated the obvious. In conclusion of the conclusion, never say "well that's your opinion" ever because it's probably not a good idea though I am open to the idea of it being a good idea. Don't bother voting for president, Vael Victus